Ha! ³Easy², in my personal experience (having once upon a time caught a hacker in .ro, but it took six months of work to seal the deal with handcuffs).
-- Josh Sholes On 3/12/14, 12:37 PM, "Andrew D Kirch" <trel...@trelane.net> wrote: >Hi, > >I found that finding them on IRC, or wherever it is that they >congregate, and simply talking to them until they incriminate themselves >tends to work best. I also found that firewalls, IDS, security audits, >antivirus, antimalware etc work almost not at all. The reason for this >is pretty simple. Cybercrime is not a technical problem and does not >have a technical solution. The solution is just like any other criminal >act, find them, get them to confess, and then put a real world face and >location to the IRC persona. Easy. > >Andrew > > >On 3/12/2014 12:16 PM, Warren Bailey wrote: >> I heard cheese works really well for catching crackers. >> >> >> Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device >> >> >> >> -------- Original message -------- >> From: Larry Sheldon <larryshel...@cox.net> >> Date: 03/12/2014 9:08 AM (GMT-08:00) >> To: nanog@nanog.org >> Subject: Re: How to catch a cracker in the US? >> >> >> On 3/12/2014 5:41 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: >> >>> TIINAL - The Internet Is Not A Lawyer. >> NANOGINTI >> >> There ARE rules in the environment, however. For example, there is one >> that I am too lazy to look-up that argues for the use of a .sig >> separator "-- ". >> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Roland Dobbins <rdobb...@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> >>> >>> Luck is the residue of opportunity and design. >>> >>> -- John Milton >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics >> of System Administrators: >> Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Infallibility, and the ability to >> learn from their mistakes. >> (Adapted from Stephen >>Pinker) >> > >