[ale] unusual amount of 'net attacks from .fr ?

[Pilar Losada]

Yes. They are the same organisation.  I don't work with Wanadoo, but I 'm a
customer of theirs. Wanadoo is the second largest ISP in Spain and I
believe, it is the largest in France. As far as the attacks are concerned,
you 've got to keep in mind that people in Europe do a good deal of their
computing/hacking from Cyber cafés.  The connection is cheap and very fast,
and the would-be cracker  erroneously imagines that he is operating
anonymously and thus with impunity.

I would guess that Wanadoo makes a lot of money from  these  Cybers; there
seems to be one on every corner; this might perhaps explain why they're so
reticent to act against these hackers. They're  unwilling to jeopardize  one
of their more important sources of revenue.

Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who works with Wanadoo. They are down in
Alicante I 'm about 1000 km to the North West of them.

Kindest Regards,

Andy


----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Ricker <kaboom at gatech.edu>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 5:16 PM
Subject: RE: [ale] unusual amount of 'net attacks from .fr ?


> On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Pilar Losada wrote:
>
> > Wow, I am sorry they didn't respond better!! Things in Europe move a
very
> > different pace. They don't quite get the customer service thing
sometimes.
> > Just out of curiosity, was it hard  to find someone there who speaks
> > English? That could be part of the problem.
>
> You're with wanadoo.es, not wanadoo.fr.... Are they actually the same org?
> If so, got any security contacts for the .es side? ;-) The .fr ones are
> a complete waste of time....
>
> Language wasn't the problem -- I can read / write French well enough to
> get by. The wanadoo.fr people simply ignore my reports.
>
> later,
> chris
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