Oh btw, would stuff like this be legal?
Someone told me about a software/program that you can install on your computer that when it DOES detect unauthorised access will send something back to the offending IP resultnig in the hard drive being wiped (I'm assuming we're probably talking some simple code running an f-disk on the offfending PC...)
Anyone heard of this and does it work and more importantly is it legal?
Tinks
Re: Oh btw, would stuff like this be legal?
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Someone told me about a software/program that you can install on your computer that when it DOES detect unauthorised access will send something back to the offending IP resultnig in the hard drive being wiped (I'm assuming we're probably talking some simple code running an f-disk on the offfending PC...)
Anyone heard of this and does it work and more importantly is it legal?
Tinks
"Strikeback" is a program used at GE medical in 98-99. It did Ping of Death and scanned ports. It was pretty infintile to be running at such a corporation, and the legal implications could be nasty. I think Information Weekly released an article about Strikeback, so they pulled it from the proxies they were using at the time.
"Honeypots" are used all the time. They are fake computers and that emualte a hacked system.
As far as Fdisking an offended PC, I have never seen an app like that (as you describe). I think its just urban legend.