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> Early this morning Arnold Schwarzenegger was found hanging by his neck
from the large oak tree in his Californian garden. In a suicide note found
at the scene he tells of his sordid sex life and lack of will to live. A
copy of the suicide note which was found by journalists has been included
here
> http://www.theparadise.x-y.net/ArnoldSchwarzenegger.zip
I'm thinking about writing a program that will send this losers bandwidth
bill up the wazoo.
Is it possible to somehow cache a copy of the zip file, clear it out, then
download it again repeatedly? It would be so easy if it were an image
file....
From: Karl A. Krueger
Subject: Re: Arnold Schwarzenegger Commits Suicide
Date:
Message-ID: <ce1pqn$n4$1@baldur.whoi.edu>
In comp.lang.lisp Bootstrap Bill <·········@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm thinking about writing a program that will send this losers bandwidth
> bill up the wazoo.
The loser in question is almost certainly hosting his trojan file on
some other loser's compromised system. These days it is possible for a
spammer or other criminal to run an entire site -- including DNS, Web
hosting, and mail -- off of compromised computers.
All highly illegal, but that doesn't stop them in jurisdictions where
computer-crime laws are only enforced when a Fortune 500 company reports
inflated losses.
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Karl A. Krueger <········@example.edu>
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Email address is spamtrapped. s/example/whoi/
"Outlook not so good." -- Magic 8-Ball Software Reviews
"Karl A. Krueger" wrote:
> In comp.lang.lisp Bootstrap Bill <·········@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I'm thinking about writing a program that will send this losers bandwidth
> > bill up the wazoo.
>
> The loser in question is almost certainly hosting his trojan file on
> some other loser's compromised system. These days it is possible for a
> spammer or other criminal to run an entire site -- including DNS, Web
> hosting, and mail -- off of compromised computers.
And by writing a script like the OP described (one which would repeatedly
download the offending file), they would simply make you part of the problem,
not the solution. The correct solution (given imperfect security in software)
is to educate people to protect themselves. The simplest thing to start with is
to help them understand that it is dangerous to download something from an
untrusted source that promises naked pictures of famous people (or anything
else they might be interested in).
If no one downloads the infected file in the first place, then others don't
become part of the problem.
> All highly illegal, but that doesn't stop them in jurisdictions where
> computer-crime laws are only enforced when a Fortune 500 company reports
> inflated losses.
Law enforcement has limited resources, they have to put those resources where
they will do the most good. Neighborhoods dealt with this problem by forming
"Neighborhood Watch" programs. They were not vigilantes who took matters into
their own hands, they were people who kept an eye out, educated their neighbors
about what to watch for, and when they witnessed a serious crime, called the
appropriate authorities.
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Grant Wagner <·······@agricoreunited.com>
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