Someone used my IPFS gateway for phishing • Hacker News Board

Re: Someone used my IPFS gateway for phishing

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Post by jstanley » Fri, Oct 05, 2018, 12:52 PM UTC

lgierth wrote: post #39

detaro wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Extensions can't implement the raw IPFS protocol though, they need a companion application running the actual gateway, or can maybe use the WebRTC transport.

No, js-ipfs can run a full ipfs node right in a web page. It'll peer with other nodes over websockets, and do relaying if neccessary.

Does js-ipfs work yet? Around the time I first wrote hardbin people were saying you could use js-ipfs, but it just didn't work. My non-javascript node couldn't access content published by js-ipfs, which seems like a major flaw.

Re: Someone used my IPFS gateway for phishing

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Post by mindslight » Fri, Oct 05, 2018, 3:38 PM UTC

gassed wrote: post #31

Leaving an IPFS gateway open seems as intelligent as running a Tor exit node.

Indeed it is - stage 6. Individually acting for the good of others and the future, rather than short term self interest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg%27s_stages_o...

Re: Someone used my IPFS gateway for phishing

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 05, 2018, 4:45 PM UTC

rhplus wrote: post #26

mynameisvlad wrote: post #10

> (although their hosting provider doesn't appear to have switched their networking off). I doubt that Microsoft Azure is going to switch off the networking for all of Microsoft OneDrive over this.

That's not a OneDrive URL (" https://onedrivepreinhabitat.**blob.core.windows.net**" ) - it's Azure Blob Storage (equiv to Amazon S3). Microsoft could absolutely disable that account.

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Re: Someone used my IPFS gateway for phishing

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Post by kordlessagain » Fri, Oct 05, 2018, 10:43 PM UTC

imhoguy wrote: post #8

Sorry to hear, but you are not alone [0]. It was matter of time for a new tech to be exploited like that. Providing IPFS gateway is like opening up public HTTP proxy (popular back in 90s). You had good intentions, but there will be lot of nasty things going thru your machine. Of course guys like Cloudflare can absorb arising liability but I think they will shutdown their gateway at some point. I think the best way to…

> I think the best way to popularize IPFS will be out-of-the box support in major browsers.

On demand gateways with micropayments might also do the trick.