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

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

jghn wrote: post #59
janwillemb wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Quick question I'm always wondering why people prefix a question with the statement "quick question". Now is my chance to ask. Is the question typed quickly? Should I imagine you speaking it in a quick manner? Is it meant as "off topic question"? Do you expect an answer quickly? What does it mean when you prefix your question with the words "quick question"?

It means that the asker believes the question is relatively short and thus won't be too much of a burden on the askee.

IME it's often used as a sort of sarcastic parody, to emphasise that the element of the person's statement being questioned hasn't been resolved and the whole situation is contingent on the answer.

For example, when PM May had finished presenting her new manifesto before the election one might ask "Quick question: how are you going to pay for all that?" to highlight the fact that no costings had been included and suggest you thought it was unrealistic (or hiding tax rises, or whatever).

"Quick question" is used genuinely too. One use appears to be "don't go too deep, give me a superficial answer".

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

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #61
banku_brougham wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I did a killclient which would send back a malformed packet to any ssh handshake and kill the connecting client. This made the pentesters mad. Sending them spoilers will just make the sad, and not so mad.

Is that a feature or was that a hack. Did the same packet kill multiple clients? More info?

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

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Post by YeGoblynQueenne »

bananabill wrote: post #7

I'll use this along with the metal band logo captcha plugin and be secure as hell.

Well, that would get me. Some black and splatter death bands have nigh-on unreadable logos. Or it's just an art I never mastered :(

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

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Post by Sophira »

EGreg wrote: post #78
a_c wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does this work? There is definitely huge demand based in other languages!

It's just a recording.

It's a little more than that; it also incorporates silence detection so that it waits for the caller to finish talking before 'Lenny' plays its next line.

But otherwise, yeah, it's just recordings.

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

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Post by swiley »

adrianN wrote: post #67
dsl wrote: post #50

You have to be very careful when running this on the telnet port. I had a server set to spew a full color ANSI Nyancat at you when you telneted in. When the Mirai botnet was in full swing, I was pushing 5+ Mbps of Nyancat down to peoples infected webcams and killing my servers CPU.

Surely some enterprising hacker can optimize Nyancat so that a normal server can saturate a gigabit connection without killing the CPU.

"Line Rate Nyan via Direct Networking"

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

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Post by c3d »

KekDemaga wrote: post #19
tyingq wrote: 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.

> God is all powerful, can He make a rock so big that He Himself can't lift it?

Yes, the human heart for example

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