[H-GEN] (AUSCERT#38535) Re: The recient spate of port scans and intrusion attempts. (fwd)

[Martin Pool]

On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 10:38:00PM +1000, David Starkoff wrote:
> (Applications of this principle to the computing sphere are left as an
> exercise for the reader...)

Hmm, so if a hypothetical machine was being attacked from a
promiscuous Wingate host then the sysadmin might be justified in doing
a DoS on that machine if all other measures failed?  I'm inclined to
think they might at least be ethically justified, if not legally.

A little further along lies trying to crash spammer's systems, which
is probably over the line.  But presumably there's a line there
somewhere.

-- 
Martin Pool