[NTLUG:Discuss] the ping thing

[Steve Baker]

sdenny wrote:

> And one final note.  A dirtly little secret is that the majority
> of attacks against our network (other than spam) come from Linux
> machines, typically located outside the US.  Its easy enough to
> tell.  When you see someone punching on you, and you telnet back
> to them, you get the friendly linux prompt more times than not.

Well, I'm not suprised. If you are trying to get your machine's
networking code to send naughty illegal stuff, it must help greatly
to have the source code. Still - it's certainly nothing to be proud
of.

     :-(

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