[plug] Attacking spoofers

[Earnshaw, Mike]

Not quiet .... being ex Royal Engineers I had more "sandwich boxes that
go bang in the night" kind of idea, that's a bit more permanent that
Juliet for anything ...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leon Brooks [mailto:leon at brooks.smileys.net]
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 3:26 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Attacking spoofers
> 
> 
> "Earnshaw, Mike" wrote:
> > Is there a way
> > (is it worth it?) that I can catch the "real" person and 
> follow it back?
> 
> > I'm just paranoid about somebody getting in and want to 
> slap them with a
> > rotten dead fish or something
> 
> I've read about someone who traced the cracker back to their ISP, used
> the cracker's own cracks at the ISP to get their user info, 
> looked them
> up in the phone book, stalked them, beat the crap out of them, stuck
> cocaine inside their hubcaps and told the (US) Feds where it was,
> result: cracker is now doing a 3 year drugs sentence. Is this the kind
> of thing that you had in mind?
> 
> -- 
> If at first you don't succeed, try a shorter bungee.
>