... intrude, obstruct and deny, all supposedly for the good of the general public, or whatever. It doesn't matter whether it's housing, social security or the Internet, there's always some big bad authority trying to throw their weight around.
I personally think that they can't succeed when it comes to the Internet. It's not like anyone can take overall control of the whole thing. Short of closing it down for general public use, which would surely not happen, regulation cannot succeed.
I've detected evidence of all kinds of access to systems on my network being attempted. Many of them have been utterly pointless. Contacting the relevant ISPs has never resulted in more than "we'll give him a warning"... in fact, one Russian ISP asked for more information on what their user did. I couldn't give this, as there was nothing there for that user to do anything with in the first place.
I have never yet been alerted to any security issues in my network... I like to think that for the most part, I run a pretty tight ship. If I do detect anything going on, I do whatever is necessary to stop it, and report it as abuse unless I hear from someone claiming to have achieved something, or if the tone of the claim is that of a cracker rather than a helpful hacker.
The biggest problem I've ever had with people's technical comments is trying to explain to them that "the technical aspects of the web server are outside my control".
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I personally think that they can't succeed when it comes to the Internet. It's not like anyone can take overall control of the whole thing. Short of closing it down for general public use, which would surely not happen, regulation cannot succeed.
I have never yet been alerted to any security issues in my network... I like to think that for the most part, I run a pretty tight ship. If I do detect anything going on, I do whatever is necessary to stop it, and report it as abuse unless I hear from someone claiming to have achieved something, or if the tone of the claim is that of a cracker rather than a helpful hacker.
The biggest problem I've ever had with people's technical comments is trying to explain to them that "the technical aspects of the web server are outside my control".