Re: RPAT - Realtime Proxy Abuse Triangulation

From: Gary Flynn <flynngn(at)jmu.edu>
Date: Sat Dec 28 2002 - 09:46:55 EST

Mathias Wegner wrote:

>>I would be very nervous about running this, remote SNMP queries of someone
On the other hand, if someone exposes an snmp server to the public network with
a default community name, I'd say they're making it as accessible as an anonymous ftp server, Microsoft C$ file share with no Administrator password,
Kazaa share of entire hard drive, or telnet server with an account of "root" and no
password. I would think it would be hard to prosecute someone in such a case
when the service was made publicly available.

Not to say that incompetence is justification for criminal behavior but how is someone
poking around the net to know which doors are left intentionally opened and which
are stupid mistakes? If I'm driving down the road and see an interesting, unmarked
driveway/road and go up it out of curiosity, am I breaking a law? Surely the owners
of a service or road that don't want people in there should mark or block it.

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