Re: RPAT - Realtime Proxy Abuse Triangulation

["Stephen J. Friedl" <steve () unixwiz net>]

For what it's worth in this "ethics" discussion, the machines that RPAT 
scanned were not open spam relays, but anonymous HTTP proxies that were 
being used to actively attack our site by brute-force password guessing. 
I don't believe that "getting lots of spam" really constitutes an 
"attack", but what prompted the development of RPAT very much did.

Steve

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