°Û °Û ÞÜ ±Û °Û °Û ÜÛÛ ÛÜ ±Û ²Û°ÛÛÛÛß°Û ÜÜÜ ±Û ÜÜ ÜÛÛÛÜ°ÛßßßÛ°Û °Û ÛÛ ° ÛÛ±Û ±Û ÛÛ ±ÛÛßßßÛܱÛÛßß°ÛÜÜÜß °Û°ÛÛÛ ÛÛ ° ÛÛ±Û ±Û ÛÛ ±Û °Û±Û °ÛÜ °ÜÛßßÛ°Û °Û ßÛ ÛÛß °ÛÛÛ ßÛÛÜ°ÛßÛÛÛÛß±Û °ÛÛÛß°ÛÜÜÛ²°Û °Û Outbreak Magazine Issue #7 - Article 12 of 16 '~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As ye hath sewn so shall ye reap... (Atleast that is what my korn poster says) By Atomichael aka Atomic Chaos About a year and a half ago I was getting pretty bored. Bored and Lonely in this shit hole they call a city I decided to write some simple code that would scan all of Pacbell's DSL subnets for users in my area running *nix based systems.To my suprise I came across several insecure routers (in this case no password) used by either home users or small businesses to connect their LANs to the internet. Oh yea and I also found like 2 or 3 redhat boxes joy! With these routers I did nothing more than test them by creating a loop back to my machine. The routers offered me little entertainment since they were some generashits anyway. I soon forgot about the routers, the three redhat boxes, my doomed quest to find geeky friends in the local area, and eventually the logs were deleted. Everything was fine until a couple days ago when I recieved these notices while trying to connect to IRC on dalnet: liberty.nj.us.dal.net- *** Got Ident response You have been Autokilled. liberty.nj.us.dal.net- *** You are not welcome on this network. liberty.nj.us.dal.net- *** Autokilled for Your host is banned due to excessive infected drones and open insecure routers. Please go to http://kline.dal.net/exploits/ or contact pacbell.net. [AKILL ID:1024243947K-a] (2002/06/16 12.12) liberty.nj.us.dal.net- *** Your hostmask is atomichael!fold@adsl-64-168-101-190.dsl.scrm01.pacbell.net liberty.nj.us.dal.net- *** For more information, please mail kline@dal.net and include everything shown here. Closing Link: 0.0.0.0 (Your host is banned due to excessive infected drones and open insecure routers. Please go to http://kline.dal.net/exploits/ or contact pacbell.net. [AKILL ID:1024243947K-a] (2002/06/16 12.12)) And Dalnet's http://kline.dal.net/exploits/ : Pacbell DSL Users Due to a severe security issue we have regrettably been forced to suspend access from Pacbell's DSL accounts to DALnet. We are in close contact with Pacbell and hope to resolve this issue within the next couple of weeks. Updates to the situation will be posted here as they become available and further details on the issue can be found by clicking here. There were no further details. I will not be clicking here on dalnet for a while. All criticism for supporting ma bell aside I like my adsl. I like being able to connect to IRC with my adsl. I do not like little kiddy zygotes who create packet shit storms for their own malformed and superfluous goals. Don't make me come to your homes and wrap garden hoses around your necks until your beady little eyes pop out of your deformed little heads. Despite my overwhelming hatred for these putrid sacks of shit I cannot help but think that I am somewhat responsible for my own fate. Could this have been avoided had I informed Pacbell or would they have just ignored me and allowed such decadence to progress? We will never know. Perhaps a lesson can be learned from all of this. If your neighbor's dog is eating chickens cut off it's balls before it reproduces and KFC goes out of business. No that's not it. If your chicken is cutting off your neighbors balls.. I mean when your dog is choking on a bone at KFC don't blame the chicken because you didn't have the balls to cut your neighbor off while pulling out of your drive way thus altering the space time continuum just enough to maybe save yourself a trip to the vet. Efnet rules Dalnet drools. Oh yea and who's idea was it to implement DCCALLOW on dalnet anyhow. I do not appreciate being forced to /quote dccallow +nickname for every person I'd like to recieve a -virus- from.