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Thread ID: 46131	2004-06-14 10:41:00	Am I an instant cracker???!!!!!!!!!!!	forrest44 (754)	Press F1

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244409	2004-06-15 01:07:00	Suit yourself, you can discourage it, Im advising that he do it and go to the local school with the nmap results etc and tell them that they have issues. My advice would be you approach them with the attitude: Better I did it now and let you know you have or dont have a problem than somebody with an alternate agenda chances across what I have and ends up bringing your system down. If you dont find anything, you dont _need_ to go to them. If you are contacted by them because their sys admin is being a prick about you setting off their firewall by portscanning them, then tell them you found network shares and were worried they may be vulnerable. Any self-respecting Network/Systems/Server admin will respect that you were being a "White-hat hacker" and simply trying to help. You didnt constantly punish their system with port-scans so there's no need for them to get up-tight, and AFAIK, no ISP will punish you for running a single port-scan on a nearby system. Tell them to send it to Abuse@yourisp.co.nz if they do and Im sure you ISP will sympathise. I however have never been reported to my ISP, but have been contacted by a couple of Sys/Network Admins. Four were curious to know what I was doing, and were happy when I replied telling them I thought they were vulnerable and was going to check before reporting it to them. Three of the four were vulnerable so employed me to do further investigation. A final Systems Admin was pissed off that I had taken such measures and harrased me and began flooding my IP. I then went to his ISP, told them what had happened and he was disconnected. Poor bugger... :p Anyways, provided you're not going to dig into their system and exploit it, then you should be sweet as, and most people would be happy that you're only trying to help them. I know that when I left my proxy open, I was glad to find somebody l33ching off me, because I knew I then had security issues that needed addressing. Most people are the same. Hope this helps </rant> Chill.	Chilling_Silence (9)
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