Re: Intro To Hacking

I agree.  In order to assure that you do not get in trouble with the
University, this is going to have to be signed-off on by multiple
people - which I expect they will be reluctant to do.

If you cannot assure yourself in writing that no action will be taken
against you if anything goes awry, I recommend this be done on an
isolated network equipment.


On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:05:43 -0500, VHP3 <vhp3@cox.net> wrote:
> The fact that it is on a university network may cause you some
> problems.  Penetration testing, essentially what you are doing...legal
> "hacking", usually involves getting permission from the /owner/, not the
> sysadmin, of the box.  Aside from that fact, your attack traffic will be
> flowing across the university network, so I'm sure that there are more
> than just a few people in the NOC (network operations center...or the
> equivilent there of) who wouldn't appreciate this too much.  Tread
> lightly.  Depending on the circumstances, I can think of about two
> outcomes this could have if you don't cover all of your bases (and I do
> mean /all/) and neither is terribly pleasant.
>
> Vince
>
> > _jason