Shoveling
Sh** on the Intern**
More news from the desk of Captain
Zap, the first person on the planet to be convicted of computer
crime...
Well, we do it! They should be able to
do it! In fact the NIPC issued a warning about the Tribal Attack code
in December! And so did Cisco offer information concerning this problem.
So what's
the excuse? Too much eggnog at Christmas? These "E-Slumlords"
of the net keep on taking in the money
and still have not maintained their real-estate to a proper manner that
should be addressed each and every day! Maybe it is time that the "building
inspectors" come in and shut them
down and demolish the "buildings", clear the lot and
then re-build! Did they forget that the whole world is able to get to them from a
few keystrokes? Or did they forget that they are not the gods that they
think that they are and are just mere mortals like the rest of us?
While the web sites themselves were not affected in general, the idea that
this can happen because these greedy Internet companies have not done
anything but squander their money on fancy graphics, fluff content
and other window dressings, they forgot about the loading dock and the
number of "trucks" that were lining up to off-load!
Now in all of this fray, we have the numerous
Security companies that had
their phones ringing off the hook about all of the paranoia going
on with web sites.
Just what are some of these web sites thinking. If your
site is a target, and you have done
nothing to protect yourself, then you
are in for a world of hurt, and all of the phone calls to the
alleged Big 6,5,4 or whatever Internet
Security Guru's they are this week
all lining up with fancy proposals, blue suits and vast audit
programs to examine the "inner
workings" of the "scared to death" clients and their web sites, are not
going to help! In simple terms so you can understand it! It's gonna cost
you money kids!
And of course we have the wonderful Packet
Storm that has gone ahead and gave
Mixtor (read his
explanation!) a 10K
prize for his little programs. Gee,
on one hand the kid
makes a program that can bring about havoc, and on the
other hand, he makes one that stops
the same crap he started! Can someone
please explain the logic here in this soap opera? Well if that
does not take the cake!!!! The owners
of Packet Storm are none other than
Kroll-O'Gara
and should have their hands slapped for such an
action. While there are a number of sites out there that release
exploits and should continue so, the need to understand such exploits
is ...We will stay the course we are on and we have the ideas that such
things should be released in general to just show what can happen. And a
glowing example this was!
(Carolyn's note: Mixter was recently sentenced
in a German court for unrelated computer crimes.)
And we would like to thank Bob Sulivan
of MSNBC for removing his (our) story
as being allegedly copied by him and his organization from an
unnamed source and our last communiqué'.
It seems that someone called Mr. Sullivan and stated that hey had
received an 18 page letter stating that the Internet was owned by all,
not a few greedy companies with their massive control exercised upon
the masses. Well the story was a somewhat direct copy of ours and caused
a bit of major grief around this office for all of the staff. MSNBC
then changed the story after talking to his unnamed source. So, the source
that is on this list, please feel free to contact us before you think
of releasing this information or opinion! And in general, as always
your opinions count, so don't be shy!
From the Desk of Capt. Zap!
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