Around 05:14am on Wednesday, April 28, 2004 (UK time), Rodolfo J. Paiz scrawled:
and origin. This is, for example, how "Denial of Service"
(DoS) attacks are
performed... hack 1,000 innocent bystanders, then use their machines to
attack your target while *never* showing your face directly. And, of
course, the innocent bystanders get blacklisted, banned, and sometimes
prosecuted. As if that weren't enough, some hackers use networks to spread
Have you a cite for the prosecution of someone who was hacked into?
While I agree with you that protection is very important regardless of
the value of any data on the PC, and that unprotected PCs have often
been used for DoS attacks, I would have thought that claiming people
have been prosecuted is scaremongering. As ever, I could well be wrong
'though.
Cheers
Steve
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