Re: Scans Observed by Officer Friendly

[Larry Chin <larry () sprint ca>]

> Frankly, Chuck, some of us actually do go out and "smack someone upside
> the head".  More importantly, the script kiddies that tend to repeat
> attempts are soon humbled into submission when their ISP cancels their
> service.

  Apologies for contributing to a thread that's a bit "off topic" for this
  list but....

  I'd like to second the sentiments above.
  We actually have a zero tolerance policy for
  abuse and regularly cancel accounts in the cases where we can
  positively identify an offender. Unfortunately we can't ( at the 
  moment ) track spoofed types of attacks, but we're working on it.

  As to the lack of response or the generation of a "canned response"
  please understand, that there are literally hundreds of complaints a 
  month that we deal with, and while each and every one is attended to by
  a  dedicated "abuse guy", we cannot reply to each and every complaint 
  ( otherwise we'd never get to the complaint :-) )

  The proof as they say is in the pudding, ie: the spam or the abuse
  stops, and the user is banned from the service and ends up "attacking"
  from another ISP.

  Just my .02 cents worth :-)

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Larry Chin {larry () sprint ca}      Technical Specialist - ISC
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