Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 08:36:30 -0800 From: Joey Garcia <gummibear@mediaone.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Working in the IT Field - Trials and Tribulations Message-ID: <36F3CE8E.AA1F2EBE@mediaone.net> References: <36F34421.3D08E80B@mediaone.net> <19990320193936.A448@corp.au.triax.com>
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Jim Mock wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 at 22:45:53 -0800, Joey Garcia wrote: > [snip..] > > Although, I was interested in finding some nuking software to nuke > > the Accounting NT server to prove that MS sucks. Either that, or > > some cracking software to prove to them that NT sucks even more. > > hehehe J/K (I guess some might frown upon that type of behavior on > > this list, but it would prove a point wouldn't it? -- I'm pretty > > sure that a teardrop attack would bring every PC there down to it's > > knees. -- Could I send a teardrop attack to a broadcast IP and > > cripple everyone? -- Would be interesting to try *grin*.) > > > > I tried this out of curiousity on our office LAN about a year and half > ago. None of the winblows boxes had any patches to protect against > teardrop, so in an effort to show the owner what could happen (I had > his permission to do this of course), I teardropped our broadcast > address. I wasn't sure if it would work or not, but a few seconds > later cries of agony could heard throughout the office as everyone's > system locked up (they should've listened when we told them to save > what they were working on). > Well, if you say it work then that's good enough for me. :) Besides I get enough calls in a day from people asking me what a GPF is and I really don't need them to be asking me what a "Blue Screen of Death" means. heheh I'll just take your word for it. :) > On another note, I'd highly recommend against doing this unless your > co-workers and boss know that you're going to do it (and give you > permission to do it), otherwise you could end up pissing some people > off that you normally don't want pissed off at you =) If they get > pissed off enough, you could find yourself looking for a new job in a > hurry. Considering I like my job, I won't be doing it. Although, no one there knows what a teardrop is, so I really wouldn't worry too much about it so as long as I don't pull a Monica Lewinski (you know, if she would have just kept her mouth shut, no one would have even known a thing). Joey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the messagehelp
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