How to catch a cracker in the US?
Andrew D Kirch
trelane at trelane.net
Wed Mar 12 16:37:55 UTC 2014
Hi,
I found that finding them on IRC, or wherever it is that they
congregate, and simply talking to them until they incriminate themselves
tends to work best. I also found that firewalls, IDS, security audits,
antivirus, antimalware etc work almost not at all. The reason for this
is pretty simple. Cybercrime is not a technical problem and does not
have a technical solution. The solution is just like any other criminal
act, find them, get them to confess, and then put a real world face and
location to the IRC persona. Easy.
Andrew
On 3/12/2014 12:16 PM, Warren Bailey wrote:
> I heard cheese works really well for catching crackers.
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> Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon at cox.net>
> Date: 03/12/2014 9:08 AM (GMT-08:00)
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?
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> On 3/12/2014 5:41 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
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>> TIINAL - The Internet Is Not A Lawyer.
> NANOGINTI
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> There ARE rules in the environment, however. For example, there is one
> that I am too lazy to look-up that argues for the use of a .sig
> separator "-- ".
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>> Roland Dobbins <rdobbins at arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com>
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>> Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.
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>> -- John Milton
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