Re: Number of Compromised Hosts

From: Alun Jones (alun@texis.com)
Date: 02/28/02 

From: alun@texis.com (Alun Jones)
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:39:25 GMT

In article <a5dmgg$9bv$1@vkhdsu24.hda.hydro.com>, "Ørjan Sandland"
<orjan@sandland.ws> wrote:
>I'd say you're out on an impossible mission.
>Even IF you managed to find a number from some smart source, it'd be dead
>wrong as the majority of computer attacks and compromised hosts are not
>published in the public.

And even if everyone did publish every hacked machine they discovered, there
are bound to be machines that have been hacked without their owners knowing
it.

Remember that you can hack a machine simply by sneaking up to it while the
authorised user is taking a "pinkelpause", as the Germans so sweetly put it.

Alun.
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