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Chris R · 07-16-2001, 05:22 AM

In the olden days - you needed some skill to be a hacker and get into systems and look around. I thought of this as fairly harmless as long as you weren't selling information or anything.

Now a days you have kids that seem to do it just to be disruptive. DDOS sucks, and the other thing that bothers me is the complacency of the system admins on the other end.

I had two people hot link my site earlier in the week. I didn't realize how much of a problem this could be.

One made over 20,000 hits to my site. I called their hosting - they said to send them an email and they would pull it.
http://www.bojue.com/big5/board/board1/data/18243.html

Over 30,000 hits now and they still haven't pulled it after two requests.

Another place did so almost immediately.

If system admins were more responsible about the type of stuff that goes thru their system, this would be much easier to defeat. Unfortunately - many do not care. Many of the smaller ones do and will be glad to help you.

God help you if you have a problem with AOL. The only way AOL will get involved is by court order, or if the person threatens to kill himself or someone else in a chatroom/IM.

There needs to be a better system in place for these security issues. Comcast should be scanning their own users for these security holes. So should other ISPs.

07-16-2001, 05:22 AM
Chris R Confirmed User Join Date: May 2001 Location: Baltimore, MD USA Posts: 1,151	In the olden days - you needed some skill to be a hacker and get into systems and look around. I thought of this as fairly harmless as long as you weren't selling information or anything. Now a days you have kids that seem to do it just to be disruptive. DDOS sucks, and the other thing that bothers me is the complacency of the system admins on the other end. I had two people hot link my site earlier in the week. I didn't realize how much of a problem this could be. One made over 20,000 hits to my site. I called their hosting - they said to send them an email and they would pull it. http://www.bojue.com/big5/board/board1/data/18243.html Over 30,000 hits now and they still haven't pulled it after two requests. Another place did so almost immediately. If system admins were more responsible about the type of stuff that goes thru their system, this would be much easier to defeat. Unfortunately - many do not care. Many of the smaller ones do and will be glad to help you. God help you if you have a problem with AOL. The only way AOL will get involved is by court order, or if the person threatens to kill himself or someone else in a chatroom/IM. There needs to be a better system in place for these security issues. Comcast should be scanning their own users for these security holes. So should other ISPs.