[wplug] Breakin attempts against the nobody account

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Mon Mar 28 11:58:37 EST 2005


John Harrold <jmh17 at pitt.edu> wrote:

> 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.

That's why I'm looking for a lawyer who has some Internet-fu.  I want to
see if I can actually make a case against these people or not.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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