From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 12:03:45 +0800
To: jya@pipeline.com (John Young)
Subject: Re: FLO_odd
In-Reply-To: <199609150103.BAA03645@pipe2.t2.usa.pipeline.com>
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The software in question should come with a warning attached: use it
and go to jail. Its a felony to maliciously disrupt someone's machines.

Perry

John Young writes:
> 2600, Summer, 1996 
>  
> Flood Warning 
>  
> by Jason Fairlane 
>  
>  
> This program scans a host to determine which ports are open,  
> or listening for connections. Once a list of receiving ports  
> has been compiled, the program then floods each of them with 
> the specified number of SYN packets. 
>  
> Don't use this software without permission. I'm serious. It's  
> very very very bad. This is probably one of the worst forms  
> of Denial-Of-Service attacks there is. No one will be able  
> to connect to your target's machine. It's bad. 
>  
> [Code follows.] 
>  
> ----- 
>  
> http://jya.com/floodd.txt  (12 kb) 
>  
> FLO_odd 
>  
>  
> Thanks to XX. 
>  
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>  
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