Hacking?

[Mitch Anderson]

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 21:36, Daniel Wells wrote:
> I have a question for all of you out there.  This could get lengthy but I will try and keep it short.
> 
> While living in Amercan Fork I was connected to the city's new network 
> (airswitches old network) where I recieved my internet connection.  
> I recieved a phone call from them telling me to quit trying to hach 
> their system.  They told me that their router had been logging my IP 
> trying to make multiple (100's) login attempts trying to gain superuser 
> status (that is what they said).  I knew that I had been doing nothing 
> of the sort and have since been trying to find out why their router 
> would have thought so.

They didn't perhaps mention the MAC address did they?  multiple login
tries from your IP really means nothing... could be spoofed, but they
should have been able to narrow it down to a mac address or the port on
the switch of where it was comming from instead of just assuming the IP
was telling the correct info... 

-- 
Mitch Anderson <mitcha at xmission.com>