Re: what to do with a script kiddie

Lance Spitzner wrote:
> 
> On Jun 4, 2005, at 11:05, Stejerean, Cosmin wrote:
> 
>> You should join his IRC channels and try to have a conversation
>> with the guy, see where it goes.
> 
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> 
> - Ethical: The second issue is one of ethics.  The Honeynet Research
>  Alliance is in the process of reviewing and better documenting these
>  issues in their charter, which you can find online now at 
> http://www.honeynet.org/alliance/charter.txt.  The suggestion above 
> would most likely violate current ethical guidelines.

Hmmm. It's by no means obvious to me why it might be considered
"unethical" to engage a wrong-doer in discourse, or to join an IRC
channel that he had set up. There's no intrinsic harm to anyone in doing
either.

Perhaps "ethics" is the wrong term; aren't we really talking about how
to snoop on snoopers without putting onself in peril of legal action?

 From a truly ethical POV, it seems to me that passive observation of
potentially criminal acts is more unethical than intervention.

-- 
Jack.