Re: Civil Disobedience

[Russell Handorf <rhandorf () mail russells-world com>]

<snip to make this shorter>

Well, as a sysadmin and grey-hat hacker (not cracker) I'd like to say 
this... If anyone does abide by this, please do install some sort of alert 
system like ARIS to collect our knowledge about these news attempts and 
stuff. It is my understanding that John doesn't want the companies to 
report the individuals to the ISPs and governmental agencies. This is a 
good idea, however it still needs to be reported because new stuff comes up 
all the time. What if this was sooner and CodeRed came out and no one 
decided to report anything?

My point is this: knowing that the FBI is first of all is swamped with 
other physical claims of attacks, why should we be bothering them with 
Internet stuff when we are capable of doing it ourselves? The lists of 
users on bugtraq and others are huge, there is much more expertise here 
than the government will ever set a finger on.

I'm all for what John is saying, however the reports of break ins should 
not be reported to the g'ovt, but to the lists- and the people in the lists 
should be more communicative to assist the afflicted company so that new 
attacks could be fended off like mace to a pack of wild badgers.

please forgive any grammatical and spelling errors, this message was 
written in haste (lunch time:P).
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