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- From: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish)
- Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI & Our Retaliation
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.214714.9919@morrow.stanford.edu>
- Sender: news@morrow.stanford.edu (News Service)
- Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
- References: <9207231306.AA06854@GRANNY.CS.NYU.EDU> <4442@hq.hq.af.mil> <l7c8pgINN7a1@neuro.usc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:47:14 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- In article <l7c8pgINN7a1@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
- >In article <4442@hq.hq.af.mil# john@hq.af.mil writes:
- >#Several Ideas for retaliation.
- >#5) while :
- ># do
- ># ls /usr/spool/news/junk #/tmp/foo
- ># for i in `cat /tmp/foo`
- ># do
- ># mail postmaster@att.com </usr/spool/news/junk/$i
- ># done
- ># sleep 600
- ># done
-
- I give this scheme about ten minutes between the
- time someone at AT&T notices it and the time all the
- messages the saboteurs send start getting dumped on the
- floor.
-
- The bandwidth this takes would inconvenience
- everyone on the Internet, not just AT&T.
-
- >#6) Use the tcp wrapper to exclude all att.com connections to
- >#your box. wuarchives, uunet, prep, etc. And generally make the net
- >#and unfriendly place for AT&T to do business. Kill their forwarded
- >#mail. Stomp their packets on your bridges routers and so forth.
- >
- >Please don't do either (5) or (6) [the part about killing forwarded
- >email] -- in some jurisdictions such actions may be considered to be
- >criminal -- in other jurisdictions that just seem simply unfriendly.
-
- (5) could be viewed as a denial-of-service attack.
- More likely,the worst outcome would be some finger-wagging
- from the perpetrator's INternet service provider.
-
- I doubt that (6) is illegal unless it's done by
- a system that has common carrier status.
- --
-
- Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com
- (415) 323-9000 x117 karish@forel.stanford.edu
-