Comments on: Kill Zombies http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2008/04/29/kill-zombies.html All of us against the machine Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:30:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Dan tdaxp http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2008/04/29/kill-zombies.html/comment-page-1#comment-66106 Dan tdaxp Sat, 03 May 2008 12:19:12 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/?p=5512#comment-66106 Relatedly, as it goes to the Zombie crisis, I just finished <i>World War Z</a> [1]. I had listened to the abridged audio a bit ago, but I heard about enough things that were in the book but not audio (North Korea's defensive posture, etc) that I wanted to check it out. Extremely good. Highly recommended. [1] http://www.amazon.com/World-War-Z-History-Zombie/dp/0307346609 Relatedly, as it goes to the Zombie crisis, I just finished World War Z [1]. I had listened to the abridged audio a bit ago, but I heard about enough things that were in the book but not audio (North Korea’s defensive posture, etc) that I wanted to check it out.

Extremely good. Highly recommended.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/World-War-Z-History-Zombie/dp/0307346609

]]> By: purpleslog http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2008/04/29/kill-zombies.html/comment-page-1#comment-65076 purpleslog Thu, 01 May 2008 01:13:56 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/?p=5512#comment-65076 The protection would need to be from both criminal and civil liability. This sort of thing has always been a controversy in the information security field. The consensus has been don't counter-attack because 1) you have criminal/civil protection and don't expect your employer to stick up for you (they will most likely fire you at the first sign of litigation or bad press - corporate CYA syndrome), and 2) You could do bad things by mistake as part of the counter attack. I have only counter-attacked once. Somebody was abusing a DNS server that the NSP I worked for owned. I ping-of-death'd his ass. The protection would need to be from both criminal and civil liability.

This sort of thing has always been a controversy in the information security field. The consensus has been don’t counter-attack because 1) you have criminal/civil protection and don’t expect your employer to stick up for you (they will most likely fire you at the first sign of litigation or bad press – corporate CYA syndrome), and 2) You could do bad things by mistake as part of the counter attack.

I have only counter-attacked once. Somebody was abusing a DNS server that the NSP I worked for owned. I ping-of-death’d his ass.

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