[PLUG] ATTBI to Comcast switch

Jeme A Brelin jeme at brelin.net
Sat Jun 14 17:09:02 UTC 2003


On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Steven A. Adams wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 16:10, Jeme A Brelin wrote:
> And the statement that script-kiddies and cable modems are somehow
> associated is the root of my skepticism. Do you think that
> script-kiddies are a product of cable modems? They did exist, and
> practice, before cable modems were in wide distribution you know.

No, I don't think script-kiddies are a product of cable modems.

I think that there are lots of both in the suburbs.

> > The actions of script-kiddies corresponds pretty well with people that
> > are bored and anti-social.  They're scanning huge networks for some
> > nominal thrill-in-destruction.  If you've got the time and energy to
> > scan huge networks AND you get some kind of thrill out of very small
> > challenges (like slipping a trojan to IIS), you're probably bored.
> > And if you're attempting to do damage or find ways to do damage to
> > other people's systems, you're probably anti-social.
>
> Read this again Jeme, you have to see that it's based on generalization
> and speculation.

It's not generalization, it's practically a proof by definition.  Bored
and anti-social only mean anything in the context of supposition and
speculation.

> It is an interesting opinion though, which is why I stated that I would
> like to see it qualified.

It's as qualified as you make it.  You wanted to see it quantified which
is impossible.  (The best you could MAYBE do is provide some numbers to
show that network probing might appear to originate from cable modem
assigned IP segments than certain others, but that doesn't mean much.)

J.
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