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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy?
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To: ToySoldier who wrote (30250)2/11/2000 11:10:00 AM
From: Richard J. Haynal  Read Replies (2) of 42771
 
Toy,

This is *not a good idea. Most hackers (badguys) do not launch an attack from their own network or if they do they use crafted packets.

Think about it. If I find a single host on a network that I want to attack that I can compromise, then all I have to do is launch an attack on Novell (can subsitute any other BM site), who would immediatley blow that network out of the water. Or better yet, craft a Denial of Service packet with the domain of the network you want to bring down and send it to Novell. Again this would have the same effect, Novell would bring that network down.

That means Novell would be doing the hackers job for them and taking the heat for it. This would have made a great tool/service for all the would-be hackers out there. Not a good idea.
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