Re: [PEN-TEST] Implications for "Looking around?" [FBI confiscation of allegely curious student]

[Ben Ford <ben () KALIFORNIA COM>]

Bear in mind that he didn't just merely look around.  What he did would
be analogous to driving by and seeing a car accident then stopping to
poke around w/ the brake lines and such.  Maybe he was just curious, but
it was a crime scene he was contaminating and he is a lead that *has* to
be followed up on.  My brother spoke to the kid immediately afterwards
and he admitted that it was pretty dumb of him.

-b




DA Smith wrote:

> This has been posted to Slashdot and I saw one very good comment on
> Nanog about this.  It bothers me, on the PEN-TEST level as many of us
> started out by simply looking around.  And, from reading posts here
> and on Bug-Traq, still do.  (The person in question details exactly
> what he did).
>
> "FBI confiscates computers of "curious" RPI student in aftermath
> of the yankees.com hack: Sounds like Operation Sundevil all over
> again (that one having gone down under SS direction):" from the Nanog
> post.
>
> http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2000/10/31/0481/1037
>
> The comments on Slashdot can be found at:
>
> http://slashdot.org/articles/00/10/31/025228.shtml
>
> It also reminds me of Steve Jackson's problems a few years ago.
>
> -Deb
> (Of course it's soley my opinion, and no one else's whom I may work
> for or associate with, etc.  Sheesh. Who's opinion could it be?)