Re: question about per. hack

[Marc Hurst <mhurst () fastlane ca>]

Is there a U.S. Federal Marshall in the House. I'll even give him 
Eugenes' home address ... >:|

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Paul A Vixie wrote:

> > > i think this is the first time.  i'm cc'ing NANOG since several folks there
> > > are wondering exactly why i think the FBI should get involved and why i think
> > > eugene kashpureff should be jailed.
> >
> > Mr. Kashpureff has been kind enough to document his work at:
> >     http://www.alternic.net/press/
>
> What Mr. Kashpureff isn't saying is that he's not just leaking bad data
> when someone asks him about something in the normal case of DNS events;
> he is actively sweeping through the public NS RR lists and causing those
> servers to ask his servers questions whose answers contain intentional
> cache corruption.
>
> Leaking the data would be a "hack."  Causing other people to ask questions
> to which you then send intentionally corrupt answers is a "crack."  I am
> astonished that here we are days later and it's still occuring.  Usually
> the teenagers who perpetrate this kind of stupidity are arrested and have
> their PC's confiscated.