Re: Best methods for tracing a mass-mailing worm

[Anonymous]

"Char Jackson" wrote:
>
> Ahh, yes, the memories. <g> A year or two ago, a vendor was brought
> into a wireless carrier's data center to help resolve some issues with
> that vendor's equipment. Part of the troubleshooting involved running
> automated tests against a list of web sites, with the list being
> created from sites that had been recently visited. As it turned out,
> one of the target sites was a gay pr0n site, but the bigger question
> at the time was whether it was actually gay kiddie pr0n. I've never
> seen such a case of 'hot potato', where no one was willing to do
> anything other than pass the issue up the management chain. Quite
> humorous when viewed from a distance, but probably not nearly as
> humorous for those who were directly involved. I don't _think_ anyone
> lost their job over it, but I know there were multiple frantic and
> heated phone calls at the executive level as a result.

No-one lost their job, but ASCII panicked and spent 2 days frantically
shredding CDs and wiping the evidence off his hard drives.