My First Denial of Service Attack..... (fwd)

Mon Oct 7 04:04:10 UTC 1996

I think that there are appropriate (and possibly over-harsh depenidng
on what combination of laws are applied) laws on the books to cover
SYN-storm-type DoS attacks.

I pity the first few who get caught...

Avi

> > Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 11:40:25 -0400
> > From: Dave Van Allen <dave at fast.net>
> > To: "'inet-access at earth.com'" <inet-access at earth.com>
> > Subject: RE: My First Denial of Service Attack.....
> > 	[...]
> > and we had the name of the user,
> > their ISP, and other info in less than 15 minutes.
> 
> Just out of curiosity, what is the penalty for this sort of activity?
> 
> Note that people didn't seem to take software piracy very seriously
> until the Software Publishers Association was able to extract some
> fairly heavy fines from some large corporations.  Up until that time,
> there was, in effect, no penalty for software piracy.
> 
> (This sounds like a good NANOG topic for some adventuresome soul...)
> 
> -tjs
> 