Inevitably, the media has been focusing on the "evil hackers" responsible for these attacks. This will likely bring about a knee-jerk legislative response that serously punishes individuals for initiating these type of attacks. DDOS attacks, however, are made possible by the thousands of compromised systems serving as DOS daemons (or masters).
What (if any) degree of responsibility do system owners have to ensure their machines are secured against intrusion?
Do you think the courts will ever place a legal responsibility on vendors, or individuals, to take steps to ensure their machines can not be used in this manner?
Can Denial of Service alone (ignoring the initial intrusion used to pland the DDOS tools) really be considered anything more than simple vandalism? After all, it is certainly not "Hacking", even in its current media sense.
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Inevitably, the media has been focusing on the "evil hackers" responsible for these attacks. This will likely bring about a knee-jerk legislative response that serously punishes individuals for initiating these type of attacks. DDOS attacks, however, are made possible by the thousands of compromised systems serving as DOS daemons (or masters).
What (if any) degree of responsibility do system owners have to ensure their machines are secured against intrusion?
Do you think the courts will ever place a legal responsibility on vendors, or individuals, to take steps to ensure their machines can not be used in this manner?
Can Denial of Service alone (ignoring the initial intrusion used to pland the DDOS tools) really be considered anything more than simple vandalism? After all, it is certainly not "Hacking", even in its current media sense.
(sigh)
you CANNOT relicense a piece of BSD licensed code.
You can certainly use it in any way you like, but the original license must be retained.
The copyright holder, of course, can release it at any time with any licence.
BSD does NOT equal public domain.
It'll work fine. IPF can easily filter by protocol type (in this case, GRE). I've built many OpenBSD machines that operate in this configuration.
I guess I should start reading the openbsd mailing lists again... damn job gets in the way.
-kj
ftp.openbsd.org, for a start.
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