> I recently experienced my first real kernel panic. It happened on a
> heavily loaded web server while a spam-provider was bombarding it with
> SMTP connection attempts. Since the SMTP port of this server is shielded
> by the TCP wrappers, this caused "tcpd" to be invoked very often within
> a short amount of time.
Under US and UK law I guess it would be "self-defence" to retialate by
bringing down the offender. An attack like this on your machine I would
consider to be a Denial Of Service attack and therefore perfectly legal to
use deadly force (i.e kill it) to end it.
Maybe someday machines will have the intelligence to detect attacks on
themselves and defend themselves, or even go on the offensive and kill
the attacker.
How about cyberhunting seasons!? Bounty paid for each spammer destroyed..
Cheers,
Alex.
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