This is the message that I got when I mistakenly typed "telnet all.net" [previously quoted message not repeated...] P.S. At this time, there is what appears to be a criminal conspiracy underway to excersize our detection system. Criminal because it is an attempt to attack a Federal Interest Computer - conspiracy because some of the participants have, after the fact, decided to participate in the criminal activity by refusing to identify the source of the attack. This is a result of a posting to a mailing list by someone who was apparently upset at having their activities detected. A recent threat to break into this site was posted, and we have contacted federal authorities. As this incident quantitatively increases, the level of our work to check out each part of the incident (by administrators such as yourself) may reach a total of $5,000. At that point, the FBI will be called in and participants in this activity may find that they are under federal investigation. Please advise your users to cease and desist and advise them to advise others to do so as well. It would also help us to limit the damage and establish culpability (and innocence) if you could get copies of the posting sent to your users so we can track down the source of the threat and determine what response, if any, is appropriate regarding your users who may be innocent victims of (and accidental conduits for) this attack. March 1996 - FC -- Thaddeus Beier thad@hammerhead.com Technology Development 408) 286-3376 Hammerhead Productions http://www.got.net/~thad