Quote Originally Posted by learning c
and even if there was a proxy... just sit and wait... watching ips in and out... more than 10sec... maybe 2 or 3 days depending... with the best software just sit back and watch teh log files... too easy. stringing proxies could be feasible but sooo slow it would be almost impossibel to control or access a pc at speed unless... you ran some ware to check prox speed and link via 100s and even if some are honeypots it doesn't matter does it as long as a few caveats are applied... but it would still be a monumental risk not knowing how many real proxies are available becos the *ia s would work out the real proxies and monitor them too so trace always possible in 99% of scenarios unless foreign governments decide not to cooperate with each other. and how would one ever know which governments are cooperating with each other and which aren't but one could minimise the risk by increasing the number of proxies and countries though couldn't one... and there is always the chance to attack in a single hit never returning to that proxy again
This is all assuming, of course, that the IP you trace the hacker back to does in fact belong to the hacker and not to some poor unfortunate he's nicked it off either by compromising their PC or just stealing it outright,,,