23 May
2001
23 May
'01
7:54 p.m.
In the PURE war, one ONLY shoots confirmed bad-guys and has ZERO collateral damage.
So if someone has a machine gun and is firing randomly, you don't act to stop him until he happens to hit someone? That's madness. I don't advocate random scanning, as it is unethical to probe random people for vulnerability. However, once you know there is in fact an open relay, you are entirely justified in blocking it. And if you have legitimate reason to suspect a site is an open relay, you are entirely justified in probing it to see whether or not it is. If your neighbor is aiming a gun at you, you are justified in checking to see if it's loaded. But if the gun is in his safe, you are not justified in breaking in to check it. DS