RE: mouse trap + fight back!

[Jim.Meritt () wang com (Meritt, Jim)]

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Ref "Fighting back":  The US Department of Defense is an organization that
you THINK would know about this, and someone doing an HTTP connection from a
Windowing browser is PROBABLY the guilty party.  You may want to look into
the reactions to the "multiple popups from browser" they briefly
implemented.

And took down within days as lawyers griped to high heaven....

Jim

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James W. Meritt, CISSP, CISA
Senior Secure Systems Engineer at Wang Government Services, Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Inno Eroraha [mailto:inno () patriot net]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 1:29 PM
> To: ajim de' great
> Cc: ids () uow edu au
> Subject: Re: IDS: mouse trap + fight back!
>
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> It's easy to fight back, if you are "absolutely" sure about your
> adversary. Keep in mind that the "adversary" may be an innocent victim
> which may have been used as a launch point to attack your network.
> Carrying out these types of retaliatory wars could result in criminal
> action against you :(
>
> Is it "ethical?" This depends on who you ask or how you define it.
> Generally, though, you
> would want to take a legal action, instead of a revenge.
>
> My 2c...
>
> On Mon, 15 May 2000, ajim de' great wrote:
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> > Dear all,
> >
> > I just wondering, is there any way we can fight back
> > any intruders? Or is there any device can be used to
> > fight back??? Is it ethical or not??? Need some help.
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Just me,
> >
> > Nazim Jambli  
> >
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