Unnamed Administration sources reported that Joe Shaw said:
My only question is do any of you who've been under attack report these incidents to the FBI and the other appropriate agencies? I understand that a lot of these places are Universities and Govt. agencies where finding someone to fix the problem is like running through water, but I can only wonder if having the FBI get involved in these things would help.
Two agents from the Houston office recently gave a presentation talking about their new and expanding computer crimes divisions popping up around the country. They kept harping on protecting the infrastructure of the nations public networks, and I think helping track down smurf amplifiers would fall under this.
-- Joseph Shaw - jshaw@insync.net NetAdmin/Security - Insync Internet Services Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am."
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Alex P. Rudnev wrote:
I am not sure about last smurf incident, but don't overestimate _dark minds_ caused this incident. I am 99.9% shure all (ALL) this incidents complained about in NANOG was the same _kidscripts_.
This do not mean you should not prevent the possibility of _cyberterrorism_, and let's this _kid's plays_ help to pay attention to the security holes we have over the Internet.
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