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To: username who wrote (30020)1/11/1998 9:55:00 PM
From: Marc Hyman  Read Replies (1) of 61433
 
I have no way to judge the significance of this "hacker" invasion

***OT***

It is not an invasion. If what I've read here is true it is what is called a denial of service (DOS) attack. Yes, it is against the law. However, unless caught in the act it is unlikely that culprits will be caught. Partly because there are potentially thousands of culprits. All it takes is a mental midget to finds a program that will crash a remote site who then shares that info with his/her like minded friends who then try to find as many sites as possible that they can crash. It becomes a game.

Now the attackers are wrong/bad/evil. But do NOT forget what allowed the attack to work in the first place -- a software bug. Yep. The attackers found out that if you created a packet with a certain type of error in it the operating system will do the wrong thing. Firewalls will often not protect against this type of DOS attack. How is the fire wall to know that a particular packet will trigger a bug in the server's software?

The Microsoft OS's are relatively new. Being new they tend to have more holes -- perhaps only because the other OS vendors have already found and fixed holes that are now just being found in Windows and NT. Personally, I do NOT believe that NT is ready for 'mission critical' applications yet. Obviously, others disagree.

// marc
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