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When Striking Back is The Best Defense
Tim Mullen, 2003-12-15

It shouldn't be a crime to reach out and hack an infected machine that's attacking your network.

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When Striking Back is The Best Defense 2003-12-15
Dmitriy (1 replies)
When Striking Back is The Best Defense 2003-12-20
x_dimitri
When Striking Back is The Best Defense 2003-12-15
SavageForce
When Striking Back is The Best Defense 2003-12-15
Tommy Ward
When Striking Back is The Best Defense 2003-12-15
nevada smitth
When Striking Back is The Best Defense 2003-12-15
pgroce
The Alternate Methodology 2003-12-15
Matthew Murphy
Ouch... err, no. How about this instead? 2003-12-15
Penguinisto
When Striking Back is The Best Defense 2003-12-16
TCSEC
When Striking Back is The Best Defense 2003-12-16
LoomChild
Great idea...all I have to do is spoof an attack on you from my enemy, and you'll take him out for me! 2003-12-16
Anonymous
Why attack when you don't have to listen? 2003-12-16
Anonymous (2 replies)
Why attack when you don't have to listen? 2003-12-17
Anonymous
Why attack when you don't have to listen? 2003-12-22
Anonymous
When Striking Back is The Best Defense, use SPIKE Proxy! 2003-12-16
Dave Aitel (1 replies)
Alright, that was cute. [n/t] 2003-12-17
Anonymous (1 replies)
Alright, that was cute. [n/t] 2003-12-21
Dave Aitel
When Striking Back is The Best Defense 2003-12-16
Anonymous
When Striking Back is The Best Defense 2003-12-16
Nick Seidenman, CISSP
When Striking Back is The Best Defense 2003-12-17
Anonymous
When Striking Back is The Best Defense 2003-12-17
Jerry Ozbun
When Striking Back is The Best Defense 2003-12-17
Anonymous
When Striking Back is The Best Defense 2003-12-18
Anonymous
I agree that we need to strike back.
But by hacking back, you are doing the same thing, and I can see no difference between the two hackings.
What we really need is to make the cost of having an unprotected or hacked machine to be significant. By achieving this we gave the right incentive to people to make their machine secure.
I would even go further. We should try to enroll the help of not only the hacked the machine but all the major backbones to the hacked machine. If the hacked machine can't be reached maybe the ISP shoould raise a firewall so the hacked machine will be isolated.


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When Striking Back is The Best Defense 2003-12-19
Paul
Another vote for ISP involvement 2003-12-19
Anonymous
When Striking Back is The Best Defense 2003-12-20
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