From: cosmos@yabbs
To: Dim@yabbs
Subject: re: tracing
Date: Tue Jun 28 02:19:55 1994

In message tracing, Dim said:
> How difficult is it to trace through someone thru the net that doesn't 
> have an account? Say you have access through a dial up, but it's 
> anonymous, and you can telnet out.  Fake email couldn't be traced back to 
> you, only to your host? If an admin saw a little hacking goin on in his 
> system, and traced the caller, would he be stopped at the dial-up? If 
> anyone wants to help me out here, or flame me (cosmos), feel free...


So one wants to cause a little trouble eh....

Fake email will be easily traced to your host unless you know your SMTP 
and I doubt you do.  No problem though, figuring its not your account 
anyhow what do you care.  An admin cant trace you unless they have caller 
id which is easily stopped on your end...  He cant access a trace like 
bellcore or anything, to get one he would have to go through all sorts of 
legal channels etc...

Now if he went to the authorities and showed them evidence of break in 
and was persistant enough they could eventually pull out telco logs of 
who had called the system at the given time...putting that against system 
logs could reveal you.

Anyhow, sounds pretty lame to me.  But if you want to waste your time 
with spoofed mail suit yourself.  I doubt any admin will bother to track 
you down though.  They will just shut down the account in question.

Cosmos