[OLUG] Caution to @home users

Tue Apr 11 04:59:03 UTC 2000

Well, by scanning your system and checking for BO would then mean they could
get access which is illegal search & sezure and they violation of privacy...
They could get into hot water for that stuff.

John Dietz
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e-mail: dietz_j at penguinpowered.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Hinrichs [mailto:jlh at home.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 12:24 AM
> To: olug at bstc.net
> Subject: Re: [OLUG] Caution to @home users
>
>
> Actually @Home has been scanning for a couple of months.  I get one or two
> scans for NNTP server a day.  They also tried scanning for BO a few weeks
> ago.  I got a call from one of their sys-admins when they
> received my email.
> (I wrote abuse at home.com, told them I have logged them trying to
> break in to
> my computer and if they did it again I would file a complaint
> with the local
> law enforcement)  They basically said that the scan was benevolent, trying
> to protect the stupid from being zombied.  I told them that
> scanning for BO
> was beyond the pale, explicitly against the AUP and if they did it again I
> would file a formal complaint with local law enforcement (believe
> it or not,
> OPD has an active computer crimes division -- they mainly handle kiddie
> pr0n)
>
> By the way, if you run winboxen on an always on internet connection you
> should check out the BlackIce intrusion detection system
> (http://www.networkice.com/).
>
>
> Jeff Hinrichs
> jlh at home.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John P McDaniel" <jpmcdaniel at home.com>
> To: <olug at bstc.net>
> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 11:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [OLUG] Caution to @home users
>
>
> >
> > i get quite a few scans from 24.0.94.130 (resolves to
> > authorized-scan.security.home.net) on port 119.  i doubt that they will
> > ever do anything with this data.  especially since i started rejecting
> > traffic from them. :)
> >
> > i asked the technician who installed my cablemodem a lot of questions
> > regarding how cox feels about servers and connection sharing,
> > etc.  basically, don't eat up a lot of bandwidth and they couldn't care
> > less.
> >
> > - john
> >
> > --
> >    cancer - cells with an ego problem
> >    humans - a species with an ego problem
> >
> > On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, David A Davidson wrote:
> >
> > > I thought many of the @home subscribers might find this interesting. I
> > > am running
> > > zonealarm personal firewall on a windows 95 box (yuk I know). Lately
> > > I've
> > > been getting alerts regarding access to my computer from DNS host
> > > hda1.rdc1.ne.home.com. Well it turns out their looking for open SMTP
> > > ports or people running servers. Technically Linux is a server even if
> > > your not offering
> > > services over the internet. I though that everyone should be concerned
> > > about this
> > > intrusion. It may also be yet another attempt to prevent Linux being
> > > used by users. Below you'll find my email message to Cox at home
> and their
> > > reply. The
> > > best service is one of openness on the part of businesses to their
> > > customers. Hope
> > > you find this information useful. I also found it interesting
> that @home
> > > now suggests
> > > they scan their systems routinely when this activity has only started
> > > this week.
> > >
> > > My email message to Cox at home.
> > >
> > > To whom it may concern. I am running a personal firewall. About every
> > > ten minutes I am getting an SMTP request from address 24.2.4.66. DNS
> > > lookup shows the internet addres of hda1.rdc1.ne.home.com. I believe
> > > this server to be coming from your facilities. Could you
> please tell why
> > > this is so and please stop attempting to circumvent my
> system. This is a
> > > violation of my computer. Thank you. All names
> > > and places removed to protect the confused.
> > >
> > > Cox at home reply
> > >
> > > To answer your question: @Home routinely scans its network to ensure
> > > that it
> > > is not being used improperly. They scan for open ports that spammers
> > > could
> > > latch onto to send email from an unsuspecting user's account.
> They also
> > > scan
> > > for servers, as running any type of server is against the @Home
> > > acceptable
> > > use policy. If you are being queried on a regular basis it may be that
> > > @Home
> > > was alerted to possible server activity on your subnet. In this case
> > > everybody on the subnet would be scanned until it was
> determined who (if
> > >
> > > anybody) is actually running a server.  @Home is not trying to access
> > > your
> > > computer, just trying to maintain quality of service for our
> > > subscribers.
> > > They are within their right to do so according to the Acceptable Use
> > > Policy.
> > > I apologize if the scans caused you any stress. However, @Home will
> > > continue
> > > to query users on its network on an ongoing basis, again, to
> ensure that
> > >
> > > subscribers are not violating the AUP and inconveniencing other
> > > subscribers
> > > in the process.
> > >
> > > thank you,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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