On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 01:46:26AM +0100, Colm Mac Carthaigh wrote:
> > On a weekly basis, even before this week, the CIA
> > would round up kids across America and slap their hands with "Don't
> > do that!" They can trace an attempted break-in all the way back to a
> > phone jack in a house!
>> I could do that, as a private individual, it's no great feat
>
well this mightened be quite true any more now that I think about
how ISP's have changed over the past 2 years, but it would
certainly be no feat to any authority.
For most attacks anyway, some sophisticated attckers proxy
their attacks through up to 50-odd machines all over the
world they happen to have rooted, usually with some dumb
worm, when the attacker is 50 ssh sessions away and delete's
logs at every step considerable resources would be needed
to determine the "real" source IP.
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