Quoting Liam McDermott (theirishmole at gmail.com):
> my brother is running a linux box connected to adsl 24/7 and has hag
> several attempted ssh connections from the same ip address.
Several? Is that _all_?
> who should he contact? , the gardai?, or is there another specialist
> department.
I'd say, ring up the Solar Guards!
http://www.starships.com/SF_Image45.HTML
Seriously, people get this all the time, and it's remotely possible that
it might even be accidental. You could try interesting the
constabulary, but I'd be staggered to find out that they'd be
interested, absent something more significant having happened.
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