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O'Reilly Revisits Online Countermeasures

Posted by timothy on from the take-that-you-basement-dwelling-twit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I just saw that late last night an editor at O'Reilly published a blog that takes a look at 'countermeasures' and 'striking back' technologies a year after a startup in Austin, TX published a white paper on the subject that caused a lot of controversy. It also links to a blog by Symbiot founder William Hurley's entitled: Self Defending Networks, Aggressive Network Self-Defense, and Vigilantes on the net. which IMHO is a damn interesting read (even though I'm personally at odds with people who want to 'strike back')."

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  1. If the Minute Men can do it.... by BrainSurgeon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...why not Joe Schmoe Network Admin?

    --
    "It's not rocket science, Smithers! It's only brain surgery!" --Mr. Burns
  2. It's really quite simple... by Hosiah · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Defending would be disarming. If somebody were coming after you with a knife, and you managed to get it away from them in order to keep from being stabbed, you're not at fault, are you?

    Write a program that finds the Visual Basic compiler/interpretter on the attacker's machine, and deletes it. Big deal, they'd have to re-install it from the disc. That'd delay them a whole ten minutes? Enough time to change a password....

    I love how I hear people in here preaching about relying on our boys in blue to protect us. Isn't this the same board where we all moan about how clueless and stupid Joe-Average Luser is, who cannot even learn not to open an email attatchment after 20 years of having it drummed into his head, and cannot switch to Linux because a disc partition is beyond his grasp? So how do I trust this same luser wearing a uniform to keep me safe?