My First Denial of Service Attack..... (fwd)
Tersian
tersian at leba.net
Mon Oct 7 18:34:34 UTC 1996
> Here's a non-relevant anecdote you reminded me of:
>
Your anecdote reminded me of a story someone told me recently about AT&T.
I am not going to type it all out here, but I will summarize.
Company A hires Company B to do some trenching along the highway to
install new fiber for Company A. Company B's backhoe operator
accidentally cuts a major AT&T backbone causing serious outages. AT&T not
only sues the backhoe driver, but Company B and Company A, forcing them
both to declair chapter 11.
My point is here, if we start taking hackers to court, what happens in
this scenario:
Hacker is from badguy.com telnets to compromised.jumpoff.com then SYN
floods att.com?
[Disclaimer: the hosts above were for demonstrative purposes only, the
hosts are fictional, bearing no direct correlation to any living or dead]
Who gets sued? Both providers, neither, or just the hacker?
It brings up some interesting questions.
Ben
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