Rick Osborne <osborne@gateway.grumman.com> writes:
PHILADELPHIA, 5-7-97 Bulk e-mail giant Cyber Promotions is under attack by "anti-spam" hackers. [...] Currently thousands of businesses with web pages and mail box accounts are being denied service.
Hmmm... the whole reason they are trying to stop the arp-spam is because whoever is doing it is trying not to be found, right? Well, what if someone (or a group of someones) were to set up a web page with a script behind it. The page would simply ask "How many arps would you like to send CyberPromo?". An anonymous web user then fills in the blank, hits SUBMIT, and the CGI does its thing. Using this system, especially if it is not just coming from one page but from anyone who sets up the CGI on their system, CyberPromo really can't do anything about it, can they? providing the interface.
A perl script to connect directly to their SMTPd (no point in clogging yours by using sendmail) would be trivial. If set up on a sufficient number of sites/pages (the form elements and script might take up a totalk of 2k, whoopee), this could be a sort of passive agressive way of getting bac _________ o s b o r n e @ g a t e w a y . g r u m m a n . c o m _________ It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired. - Lazarus Long
First of all, Wallace is a great guy and anyone who interferes with his freedom of speech is scum on par with C2Net. Second, if you run a cgi script in this manner, the pings are still coming from the web server. You want to ping from the client that the browser's on. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps