[ale] Sunday 05-22-05 6PM RUN-AS-ROOT CHALLENGE

[Jim Popovitch]

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 08:22 -0400, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
>
> You are a fool if you do this, and so is anyone who takes you up on
> your little "challenge".. Posting information to a public mailing list
> offering root access to your box to a bunch of anonymous mailing list
> readers for 30 minutes will not garner you much sympathy from a Judge
> when some lurker from halfway around the world uses your box as a
> jumping off point for an attack on someone else. It is grossly
> negligent and short sighted. I hope you have a good lawyer.

How do you know his configuration?  How do you know that the upstream
router/firewall/gateway would allow what you describe?

Too often on this list people think they know more about others and
their systems then they really do.  It shows in their gross assumptions
and generalizations.

-Jim P.