> >Jones Beene wrote: >> Even scarier is now that K_ _ ke has >> signed back onto vortex from a Euro ISP, the unauthorized >> attempts will probably increase ;-) > >THAT IS SCARY. :-) > >Frederick >
Actually, this is the first time in the last 5 years or so that the Vortex Group hasn't crashed completely for three days after I made a post. Things are getting BETTER! Jed did make a good point however, that it is dead easy to hide your identity while posting, and you can do it while you surf, as well. In 1993, when I first got on to the internet and began researching and posting, I did not know any of the tricks. I was just really, really glad that I could set up an e-mail program that worked. As the subject of computer security became more important, we pretty much all learned together just how easy it was to break into someone else's machine. I think that the reason that I caught so many people back then was that their efforts to break in were every bit as amatuerish or naive, as mine were in something as simple as successfully sending an e-mail. As time went by, both the snoopers and the snooped gained more knowledge, experience and sophistication. I don't bother reading my firewall logs anymore, primarily because I am just too lazy. I am just not as interesting to the snoopers as I used to be either, because I am not actively doing any research in this field at the moment. Knuke Absolutely NO Sparbarinos were sacrificed in the making of this message.
