At 09:48 AM 1/12/1999 -0800, Dalvenjah FoxFire wrote:
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 05:12:22PM +0000, Michael Shields put this into my mailbox:
In article <19990111101351.04195@dragonlair.dal.net>, Dalvenjah FoxFire <dalvenjah@DAL.NET> wrote:
Much as I hate to say it, this seems to be one area where industry self-regulation has utterly failed. I don't know what would be a better solution; I hate to suggest government regulation. But I'm at a loss here.
Civil liability?
Possibly. I don't know of anyone who's tried suing over a smurf attack. If I could afford the lawyer and the court time I'd do it myself. All we really need is one or two good cases to establish some case law; then the rest of us can have some legal precedent to point to and say "If you don't fix your networks, you're screwed."
Criminal. DOS attacks are covered by 18 USC 1030. And I think there might even be smurf included in the Kevin Mitnick case, but I'm not sure about that. --Dean ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Plain Aviation, Inc dean@av8.com LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP http://www.av8.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++