[KLUG Members] Re: legality

[Bruce Smith]

> >Personally I don't go looking for security holes in other people's
> >computers, so I don't have to worry about contacting anyone!  :-)
> >
> Agreed in general, but here's another point that everybody seems to
> be ignoring.  This machine was sharing files (OK, all of them) with
> the Internet.  It was SERVING files to anybody who could find it. 
> This was no hack attempt, this was a client-server transaction like
> any other.

I'm not ignoring that point at all.

I would have never known he's serving files to the entire internet 
because I WOULD NOT HAVE LOOKED!!!  

Just the action of probing for open ports or services can get you
in trouble.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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