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Re: Scanning external-lan computer, no results?

To: "Richard Moore" <rich@westpoint.ltd.uk>
Subject: Re: Scanning external-lan computer, no results?
From: "Doug Nordwall" <raleel@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:37:23 -0500
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I was waiting for that.

Short of it was, I had permission to scan behind firewalls and these were very sensitive controllers that go TU when they get scanned. Hit the one on a boiler, it overflowed, flooded (like, a few inches) a building.

On 1/30/07, Richard Moore <rich@westpoint.ltd.uk> wrote:


Doug Nordwall wrote:
> I have personally flooded (with water) a building with a nessus
> scan, and that was against computers I was authorized to scan.

I have to ask, how did you manage that? It sounds like there's
a story behind it...

Cheers

Rich.
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Richard Moore, Principal Software Engineer,
Westpoint Ltd,
Albion Wharf, 19 Albion Street, Manchester, M1 5LN, England
Tel: +44 161 237 1028
Fax: +44 161 237 1031



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Doug Nordwall
Unix, Network, and Security Administrator
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. -- Mark Twain
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