[wplug] Breakin attempts against the nobody account

[John Harrold]

Sometime in March Chris Ott assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| 
| Bill Moran wrote:
| >Does anyone know a lawyer with experience in this kind of thing?  The
| >foriegn-originated attacks are just something we all have to deal with,
| >but the ones from (for example) Comcast and Verizon have legal 
| >ramifications!
| 
| I wouldn't be too sure about that. I'd be surprised if most of those 
| machines weren't just zombies.

Zombies or not, they are operating on an ISP's network and Bill has filed
complainants about them. As a common carrier they are not responsible till
complainants have been filed. At this point they should respond. At least
that is how I understand it. Perhaps they better to lawyers than they do to
friendly requests.

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