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Date:	Sun, 19 May 2002 08:51:18 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: My ISP is hacking me ?

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> FWIW, 888 is:
>
> erlogin 888/tcp # Login and environment passing

I saw that but I'm clueless as to what it's for. The AppleTalk and
PCAnywhere ports were self-explanatory.

> >to run "cgi-bin?fdisk" just for fun?
>
> Not right away, but maybe someday. You could
> find out, but you'd have to open up port 80
> enough to capture some GET and POST requests.

Maybe I should set up one of the spares as a honeypot machine, just out
of curiosity.

Frankly, I'm *amazed* that this much hacker activity is going on. I
knew it was bad, but not *this* bad.

- Peter

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