Re: Which Firewall?

From: Purl Gurl (purlgurl_at_purlgurl.net)
Date: 06/03/04 

Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 21:02:15 -0700

Purl Gurl wrote:
 
> Purl Gurl wrote:
> > Leythos wrote:
> > > Purl Gurl wrote:
 
(snipped)
 
> For those readers interesting in statistical graphs, you may
> visit our family server here,
 
> http://www.purlgurl.net/attacks.html/
 
> On that page you will discover nice graphical charts of actual
> attacks on our server,

To add some offbeat interest for this newsgroup, previously
in another article, I write of randomizing security methods
to prevent profiling of security systems.

For our last chart, bottom chart, you can "see" results of
a program which randomizes responses to selected events.

Look directly aboves dates May 28, May 29 on through to
May 31 date, literally directly above those dates on
the graph. You are actually looking at effects of our
security rotation. Then comes June 1 which reflects a
serious increase in attempts, by cooperative actions
by many. This increase is a graph of their frustration
and of attempting new methods; they are trying to figure
out what the Hades is going on.

This is nice. Randomizing manipulates them into trying
different techniques, which are logged and reviewed;
they afford me an ability to collect data, on them.

I write "they" and do claim a cooperative effort.

A short partial snippet of data collected,

ShowLetter?MsgId=6432_6633_3451_1052_65_0_17113_-1_0&YY=26695&inc=25

A mistake made there, a big mistake. Those involved in a cooperative
effort to harass our family, provided me with just the data I needed
to black hat an email account and extract evidence of just such; an
overt cooperative effort by a select group I know well.

Now they know with their routinely monitoring newsgroups for
my postings. Will they make this type of mistake again? Yes.

Perhaps, in time, I will submit my data to law enforcement,
as I have done in the past to some of them. Most embarrassing
for some to have a detective knock upon their front door or
to phone you and ask questions which heighten anxiety.

Previously I wrote of Murphy. He does not always work against
those of us, almost all of us, who are good and decent people.
Quite the opposite, Murphy more often works against those who
are less than good and decent; Bad Karma.

Again, security is that which you create and maintain. Security
is not purely software based; it is more often based upon your
personal ability to think like a fox.

Purl Gurl

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