Euler
Joined: 02 Sep 2004
Posts: 109
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Yes. I get them all throughout each day. I used to get rather angry about it. Years ago I became so obsessed, I wrote a script that would recognize the footprints left (in /var/log/messages) by one of these attempts, and then blurt back a big old spoofed, monstrously deformed ARP packet carrying the payload: F U C K O F F Y O U. The whole thing was silly. A misuse of the resource and of my time.
I have since changed my attitude. You know, strictly speaking, it's not illegal for a person to try your ports. It's not out of bounds for someone to try to open a door. No harm, no foul. As long as I'm doing my job, these monkeys can keep fiddling with my locks. It's like rain. Except this kind of rain doesn't help flowers grow or anything.
I guess I'm trying to say it's inevitable, it's large and it's pointless to begrudge it. Like bad weather. It just IS, so we build shelter.
Back when I used to obsess over this, I would chase down each IP that "fucked with me". I found that by far, most of the hack attempts came from China, Nippon, Taiwan, India, and the US.
One way of looking at this - trying to put on my largest mind - is that it's a sure sign of the International proliferation of internet technology. If, as Adams said, Man eventually chooses what's right, these people should eventually tire of the fruitlessness of their blackhat endeavors, and they will find bigger challenges and greener pastures in fulfiling the true mission of technology, which is to help, to augment human capability, not to exploit it.
So, in that view, it becomes a moral imperative to keep a tight and secure network. To ensure that hackers don't experience success so that they will turn back (each according to their internal compass) to the pursuit of constructive goals.
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Fri Dec 03, 2004 5:18 pm
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, since that seems to be the only one I've ever seen these "monkeys" try. I'm sure it's fairly automated though.