Around 05:14am on Wednesday, April 28, 2004 (UK time), Rodolfo J. Paiz scrawled: > and origin. This is, for example, how "Denial of Service" (DoS) attacks are > performed... hack 1,000 innocent bystanders, then use their machines to > attack your target while *never* showing your face directly. And, of > course, the innocent bystanders get blacklisted, banned, and sometimes > prosecuted. As if that weren't enough, some hackers use networks to spread Have you a cite for the prosecution of someone who was hacked into? While I agree with you that protection is very important regardless of the value of any data on the PC, and that unprotected PCs have often been used for DoS attacks, I would have thought that claiming people have been prosecuted is scaremongering. As ever, I could well be wrong 'though. Cheers Steve -- (o< www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by Fedora Core V_/_ No MS products were used in the creation of this message 12:35pm up 52 days, 20:59, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.06, 0.03
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