[plug] Attacking spoofers

[Leon Brooks]

Peter Wright wrote:
> Personally I'd find it quite satisfying to hunt down a cracker and
> beat the crap out of them, but considering (a) the long odds against
> someone bothering to crack into my pissant dialup system, and

You'd be amazed, I'm sure, to find out just what they do bother to
crack. For example, if a 133t-5(r1pt-k1|)|)13 with a set of shiny new
RedHat-specific toys to hand happened to portscan you and see a telnet
prompt (and you'll be scanned about every hundred hours on-line, at
current rates, and steadily increasing), they might dally long enough to
do some serious damage.

> (b) the
> even longer odds against a cracker being conveniently locatable in the
> Perth metro district.... :)

Oh, I'm sure we could whomp up something for you... (-:

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