Would you perhaps have more underlying problems if a "script kiddie" on a dialup can attack you in such a way to impact your service? Bryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Bruns" <bruns@2mbit.com> To: "Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix@techmonkeys.org>; "Matt" <acheron@qwest.net>; <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 10:20 AM Subject: Re: Abuse Departments
----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix@techmonkeys.org> To: "Matt" <acheron@qwest.net>; <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 3:18 AM Subject: Re: Abuse Departments
Most places will take care of abuse issues if they get to the right person, but some places simply won't wake up their network admin at 11:00 on a saturday night because some script kiddie's DSL is getting attacked by another script kiddie on IRC.
Watch yourself poptix - you don't have such a squeaky clean past either.
Point is this. If your network/servers are being used in an attack
against
someone else, you can be held responsible if you do not act in a timely manner.
This "script kiddie's DSL" is actually a shared setup with several servers on the end of it and a firewall. What happens to it also affects me and my customers. When my customers go down, I get complaints.
Now, if your network was attacking mine from a comprimised box, and you failed to act in a timely fashion, regardless if its a DSL or a T1 or a dialup for that matter, I'd either sue you myself for allowing the attack to continue, or give my customers your info and let THEM sue you for it.