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Spoilerwall: Respond to port scanning requests with movie spoilers

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Re: Spoilerwall: Respond to port scanning requests with movie spoilers

#22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps questions like "This statement is false", "New Mission: decline this mission", base64 encoded copies of René Magritte's 'this is not a pipe', "God is all powerful, can He make a rock so big that He Himself can't lift it?", "calculate the 2nd prime number", etc to prevent automated AI attacks.

> "calculate the 2nd prime number" I don't recognize this reference.

Did they mean "2nd largest prime number"?

Re: Spoilerwall: Respond to port scanning requests with movie spoilers

#23

In an effort to explain what this does, I'd just like to point out how the grammar of the title is meant to be interpreted: [Avoid being scanned] [by spoiling movies] [on all your ports].

Here I think the passive voice actually helps and an extra word.

Spoil movie [plots] on all your ports to avoid being scanned. {{by zombies}}

Re: Spoilerwall: Respond to port scanning requests with movie spoilers

#24
post #10

A random mix of elevator pitches for various religions might be a better deterrent. Have you heard the good news?

Perhaps questions like "This statement is false", "New Mission: decline this mission", base64 encoded copies of René Magritte's 'this is not a pipe', "God is all powerful, can He make a rock so big that He Himself can't lift it?", "calculate the 2nd prime number", etc to prevent automated AI attacks.

> "New Mission: decline this mission"

Is that a paradox? If you accept it or have it forced on you then depending on how you interpret the rules you either succeed or fail straightforwardly. If you don't accept it or have it forced on you then nothing happens. There's no loop of logic.

Re: Spoilerwall: Respond to port scanning requests with movie spoilers

#25
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a short program that listens on a port and responds to any attempt to connect to that port by sending back movie spoilers. The idea being that anyone that tries to port-scan your machine will be punished by having all the twists in all the best movies revealed.

I like this explanation. But is this good network security?

Somewhat tangentially related: a long time ago, certain scanning tools would crash or otherwise not react well to getting a stream of /dev/urandom. You could consider this the more human version.

Re: Spoilerwall: Respond to port scanning requests with movie spoilers

#26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps questions like "This statement is false", "New Mission: decline this mission", base64 encoded copies of René Magritte's 'this is not a pipe', "God is all powerful, can He make a rock so big that He Himself can't lift it?", "calculate the 2nd prime number", etc to prevent automated AI attacks.

> "New Mission: decline this mission" Is that a paradox? If you accept it or have it forced on you then depending on how you interpret the rules you either succeed or fail straightforwardly. If you don't accept it or have it forced on you then nothing happens. There's no loop of logic.

You seem like the sort of person who says, "I always lie."

Re: Spoilerwall: Respond to port scanning requests with movie spoilers

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Re: Spoilerwall: Respond to port scanning requests with movie spoilers

#30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps questions like "This statement is false", "New Mission: decline this mission", base64 encoded copies of René Magritte's 'this is not a pipe', "God is all powerful, can He make a rock so big that He Himself can't lift it?", "calculate the 2nd prime number", etc to prevent automated AI attacks.

> "New Mission: decline this mission" Is that a paradox? If you accept it or have it forced on you then depending on how you interpret the rules you either succeed or fail straightforwardly. If you don't accept it or have it forced on you then nothing happens. There's no loop of logic.

> > "New Mission: decline this mission"

> Is that a paradox? If you accept it or have it forced on you then depending on how you interpret the rules you either succeed or fail straightforwardly. If you don't accept it or have it forced on you then nothing happens. There's no loop of logic.

Good point! "New mission: fail at this mission" addresses the first point but not, I think, the second. It reminds me of Carlin's "If you buy 'The worst of Jefferson Airplane', and you like it, should you ask for your money back?", or the even-more-elemental "If you try to fail, and succeed, what happened?"

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