Government scrutiny is headed our way

Steve Sobol sjsobol at shell.nacs.net
Wed Jun 17 03:10:43 UTC 1998


On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 10:33:29PM -0400, Jamie Scheinblum wrote:
> And then you'll get wrapped up in the court-case, probably lose the case
> since they'll be able to hire better lawyers and fight it out longer, the
> judge/jury will have no idea what your talking about, and you'll still be
> the victim of the smurf attacks.  My guess is, you won't get far this way.
> Too many people to sue.
> 
> I still like the idea of running a scan of the entire IP space, as expensive
> and tiring it would be, and inject them all into the RBL.

Nice idea, but one of limited usefulness - not everyone uses the RBL

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