Re: [Nolug] Porn served by hacked home computers

From: mikey_at_otisinc1.net
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:20:47 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <1487.192.168.1.1.1058278847.squirrel@mail.otisinc1.net>

> On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 11:23, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>> At 04:34 PM 7/13/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>> >Interesting article on Bugtraq:
>> >http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.bugtraq/6470
>> >
>> >Pornographers have always been on the cutting edge when it comes to
>> making money on the Internet. Now, they're hacking home computers.
>>
>> That is an absolutely beautiful hack against someone's PC. Sure, it is
>> illegal and the responsible parties need to pay, but that really is a
>> good idea. Or should I say a good bad idea? Or a bad good idea?
>
> The phrase, I think, is "deviously clever".

I dunno about that. If it's all pointing to his DNS box, he's going to be
*real* easy to catch. Hope he's got a bulk eraser handy. ;)

OTOH, it is a pretty interesting form of distributed computing.

--
Since-beer-leekz,
Mikey
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