-----Original Message----- From: Adi Linden [mailto:adil@adis.on.ca] Sent: February 7, 2004 12:54 AM To: Vivien M. Cc: 'Michel Py'; nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: Stopping open proxies and open relays
If stricter laws on computers forced even 50% of people to start caring a little more, wouldn't that be progress? The day a couple of grandmothers get taken away in handcuffs because a script kiddie took up residence in her computer is the day a few people will wake up to the fact that computers need regular maintenance...
The the script kiddie gets taken away in handcuffs and lined up for the electric chair is when we see progress. I think you're confusing the criminal and the victim!
I have no objection to the electric chair for script kiddies, but tracing them seems to be somewhat challenging sometimes. Identifying people who don't maintain their computers is usually easier :) And no, I'm not confusing the criminal and the victim. If you leave a loaded handgun on your front porch and I come along and take it, then shoot your neighbour's kid with it, then I would expect both you and I to be prosecuted (though not for the same crime, of course). Vivien -- Vivien M. vivienm@dyndns.org Assistant System Administrator Dynamic Network Services, Inc. http://www.dyndns.org/