Re: intrusion via ssh
On Friday 01 April 2005 07:23, Ron Johnson wrote:
>On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 13:27 +0200, Bob Alexander wrote:
>> Michelle Konzack wrote:
>> > So, if I reinstall my Linux Router for the 4 ADSL Modem-Routers
>> > I will reinstall a script, which, if it detects an aggression,
>> > answer with an automated upload of a rootkit...
>> >
>> > And if you think, i can hit innocents, then I answer, that the
>> > owner of the Computer is responsable for this whats going on
>> > with his/her computer/server.
>> >
>> > If they permit people to do cracking, it is not my problem if I
>> > erase a Database of 3 TBytes... (already done in Italy) :-)
>>
>> Michelle,
>> I am no-one to tell you how you should behave and express only my
>> personal opinion, but I find counterstrikes to be ethically,
>> philosophically and probably legally unacceptable.
>
>In the USA, such "active defenses" are really illegal, if the
>theory that a "door booby-trapped to fire a shotgun blast at it
>if a burglar breaks in thru the door" can be moved to the digital
>world.
Yes it is. Highly illegal. OTOH, they must be able to produce a
'corpus delecti' in order to prosecute. Many localities aren't
blessed with such computer forensic experts, nor the knowledge even
of where to hire one if they had the funds to do so. I've also
observed that from time to time, a bit of 'common sense' prevails in
deciding which incidents are worthy of prosecution based on the
relative merits of the he said/she said's involved...
Real justice is served more often than not by those limits.
--
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