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RE: Slandering and the whole leb.net thing



Yeah, they must be announced first, all 94,000 of them... personally...
...Ziv

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ariel Biener [SMTP:ariel@fireball.tau.ac.il]
> Sent:	Thursday, October 29, 1998 15:23
> To:	Israeli Linux Mailing List
> Subject:	Slandering and the whole leb.net thing
> 
> 
> 
> 
>   Good afternoon,
> 
> 
> 
> 
>    I think I speak for everyone when I say that the whole leb.net
> thread
> has grown out of proportion, and further corespondence about it should
> be
> channeled to private mail.
> 
>    The whole thing was blown out of proportion by security companies,
> and
> mostly by the media. All this said, I think the leb.net
> administration,
> and the one who is doing the survey have proved themselves worthy of
> this
> maltreatment. In order to conduct a survey, the parties that are being
> probed MUST BE ANNOUNCED. It is unthinkable to just send random
> packets
> over the Internet, and query servers that one doesn't own without
> annoucing to their owners beforehand. It is an invasion of privacy,
> too
> bad that no one will sue these people in a US federal court.
> 
>    On top of this, these people, instead of apologizing (something the
> newspaper and the "security" company who sent the alert should do as
> well), they go out and slander someone whom in my eyes represents what
> proffesional is all about, someone who has nurtured the Internet in
> Israel
> from it's very beginning, and someone who is still the most prominent
> figure in Internet routing in Israel today. (I'm speaking of Hank
> Nussbacher). I am sure that many (if not all) people on this list
> share
> this view, together with anyone who has ever worked with Hank.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> --Ariel
> 
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