Probably a very bad plan unless you like prison food... Like the downside if you get caught is likely to be non-trivial. Imagine an outcry above the Mitinic level and bellow the McVeigh level... On the other hand I would not be too sure about the level of security being exceptional. I know that the NSA was not involved in giving security advice on Federal Web server setup until very recently (after the CIA raid). I suspect that the result of Lucky's mail is thart some poor guy is now going to have to sit up nursing a comms link watching for attempts to penetrate. Mentioning possible security holes in specific installations in public is not really fair. I know of one well known security consultant who claimed to have reported a security weakness at a particular site. Caused a massive panic. When the alledged report could not be found you can guess what happened to the guys chances of getting any business... Phill ---- From: Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu> Newsgroups: ailab.cypherpunks Date: Monday, July 07, 1997 5:47 PM Subject: Re: Hack the Mars rover

On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Paul H. Merrill wrote:

...

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but taking someone's toy away -- even just for awhile -- IS Denial of Service. And, yes, 'twould be a Blast to go joyriding.

Yeah, it's still DoS, but it's not quite the same as just taking the toy away from everyone..

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Ryan Anderson - <Pug Majere> "Who knows, even the horse might sing" Wayne State University - CULMA "May you live in interesting times.." randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu Ohio = VYI of the USA PGP Fingerprint - 7E 8E C6 54 96 AC D9 57 E4 F8 AE 9C 10 7E 78 C9 -----------------------------------------------------------------------