From: "Ed Wilts" <ewilts@ewilts.org> > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:24:14PM -0800, jdow wrote: > > The Chinese are at it again, either second hand through a hacked host or > > first hand. > > I don't think that's called for in this forum. After all, we don't > claim "The Americans are at it again" when the majority of the hacker > attempts come from US-based systems. 1) At least a third to a half the attacks on my system's interfaces trace back to a .cn address. Should I deny this is the case? I did remark it was either them or their hacked insecure systems, which are the two possibilities. 2) If you notice the map on http://www.incidents.org/ you might note that the pie circle over Asia is as big as that over the US, lately. (That rather surprised me.) Of course, I freely admit that this merely indicates the machines doing the attacking are in Asia. The attackers may be doing it through Asian cutouts. (The percentage of attacks traceable to Asia in the gateway here that are Chinese is higher than others seem to report. I am not sure what that tells me. Nonetheless they are Chinese machines.) 3) I categorically refuse to be nice and politically correct and not profile attacks when my own security is at stake. So a great big {`,'} to you, sir. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
