Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 10:11:23 -0500 From: Bob Martin <bob@buckhorn.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Chasing the kiddies (was: Named Keep crashing) Message-ID: <3ACB399B.979EA246@buckhorn.net> References: <200104040745.RAA08839@metva.com.au>
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*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* > Clearly the sheer volume of morons is one reason. I've been giving a lot of thought to this whole thread. I keep asking myself why we never had this problem in the days of DARPA, or more correctly, why it keeps getting worse. It took me a while, but I think I understand. It's not the number of "morons" on the outside that's hurting us. It's the one's on the inside. What does it say about the state of our affairs when a teenager from Canada can hijack 100's of computers and use them collectively against a single target? It really boils down to the organizations that try and build a 10 dollar network on a 2 dollar budget. There are too many underskilled, understaffed and underbudgeted admins. They "allow" the holes that the script kiddies exploit, and all of the rest of us suffer. It will do us little good to try and stop the morons on the outside until the morons on the inside stop giving them the tools to work with. Until that happens, our only hope is to help each other, and keep each other informed. I really think history will find that collective information sharing, like this list, will have as much impact on the Internet as Dr. Linklider's RFC's. -- Bob Martin, CTO InterNet Unlimited http://www.inu.net mailto:bob@inu.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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