[ale] SNARE?

[Dow Hurst]

Jonathon,
What a nasty idea there of getting your email hard coded by an enemy 
into a worm!  Hadn't thought about that ramification!  Do you have any 
more really low down and dirty ideas to pass along? ;-)   That type 
retaliation seems like a simple idea but really shows that you've 
thought alot about this and experienced quite a bit.  Of course, a list 
of all a cracker's enemie's emails hard coded in the worm would point 
back to you.  But maybe not just one email.  Physically releasing the 
worm from a trail leading to your enemy's machine would be even more 
diabolical.  Would you be interested in sharing some war stories 
sometime? :-)
Dow


Jonathan Rickman wrote:

>On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Greg wrote:
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>>Of course, if you don't think that either 1) you will be prosecuted or
>>2)your attacker and/or his/her friends are more of a threat than you are to
>>them, then go for it.  However, I recall a while back Steve Gibson (the
>>security "guru") was DoS'd due to pissing some kids off.  So, I guess I am
>>saying to make sure you have some serious cyber foo before going off
>>half-cocked, and even so what are *you* going to do if you do get DoS'd ?
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>Just to clarify one thing. Steve Gibson is a charlatan, not a guru.
>
>Speaking as someone who is the victim of frequent mail bombings and the
>like, you'd better really be "into" security before you stick your neck
>out. You had better be willing to waste alot of time on your newfound
>hobby or else you'll regret it. Most of these incidents are minor and more
>or less just annoying, but every once in a while, someone gets clever and
>does something neat like...oh...hard coding your email addy in the code of
>a worm so that every bogus message it generates in an attempt to spread
>itself appears to come from you. Then you have thousands of clueless
>victims swamping your inbox with accusations and threats of legal action.
>Think it through very carefully before you volunteer for a "war game".
>
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