[PLUG] OT: Intrusion could soon be legal

[Alex Daniloff]

>From the school course of physics: 
On every applied force there is a counter force.
If somebody is trying to hack you, you can counter hack them.
Or if you don't like cyber hacker duels you can put 
in stealth mode all unnecessary ports on your Linux box 
and set up a firewall.

Poor Winblows users ...



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> On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 09:09, Kyle Accardi wrote:
> > Just in case there is someone on the list that doesn't read The
Register 
> > everyday.
> > 
> > http://www.theregus.com/content/6/25726.html
> > 
> > "If House Hollywood sock puppet Howard Berman (Democrat,
California) gets 
> > his way, it will become legal to hack a network in efforts to
impede the 
> > on-line illicit trade in copyrighted works."
> 
> I wonder... if you see somebody is actively trying to hack you,
would it
> be legal to ... uhhh ... force them to stop?
> 
> It is illegal to shoot somebody, but you can shoot somebody who is
> trying to shoot you.
> 
> -- 
> Rob
> "Google is your friend"
> 
> 
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