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Re: I scanned Austria

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Post by simonsaidit »

simonsaidit wrote: post #29
simonsaidit wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was for fxp sites. I was a mod on a fxp board. We would make locked directories eg with deep paths and Lots of Whitespace that ftp clients couldent handle easy and Hence not Enter without knowing the tricks. Also using reserved Windows names like aux would prevent owner to delete or even crash his server trying anything. Later came tricks like undeletable files as different sites would fight over the same ftps.…

Here is a pretty good explaination of how it worked. https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/92uz49/the_ware... I have No idea how it is today but back then it was pretty organised. We would have people funding eg a university apartment and servers and paying for eg 10x100mbit we would Bond or Having direct access to oc connections just so they could get leech.

What it doesnt explain is that this was very hard work to be eg a trader for top sites near impossible to even get access to one. You would work 8-16 hours a day to always be ready for a release and then when a release hit your Heartrate would double as you rushed to transfer files to the sites the allowed it All of Whom had hundreds of rules and Which you had to know by heart as the races on the Best sites were over in less than a minute and you would be lucky to transfer 5x15mb rar. 20-30 times a day you would have this short but intense moment. If your group dident perform Well it would be changed for another as top groups were rated against eachother. It became an addiction. Getting into building sites was much better for my health.

Re: I scanned Austria

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Post by Forge36 »

piokoch wrote: post #5

I think soon or later we will need some kind of public institution that will do this sort of scans; all those unsecured IoT printers, vacuum cleaners, fridges, abandoned servers, Synology servers, etc. would become a real threat at some point and the costs of dealing with issues caused by them like identity theft, false accusations because on someone's server there is child porn uploaded by a cracker, bot nets will b…

What's the best way to self scan? I recently bought a wifi camera and digging through the settings I couldn't find a way to block external access. Ultimately I had to block is access via my router, however consumer models are terrible about blocking access to the internet.

Re: I scanned Austria

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Post by bboreham »

Forge36 wrote: post #32
piokoch wrote: post #5

I think soon or later we will need some kind of public institution that will do this sort of scans; all those unsecured IoT printers, vacuum cleaners, fridges, abandoned servers, Synology servers, etc. would become a real threat at some point and the costs of dealing with issues caused by them like identity theft, false accusations because on someone's server there is child porn uploaded by a cracker, bot nets will b…

What's the best way to self scan? I recently bought a wifi camera and digging through the settings I couldn't find a way to block external access. Ultimately I had to block is access via my router, however consumer models are terrible about blocking access to the internet.

Most consumer routers will by default block a connection _from_ the Internet. They use a private address range and apply NAT to outgoing connections, so explicit configuration is needed to do something with an incoming connection.

Re: I scanned Austria

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Post by EvanAnderson »

dev_dull wrote: post #18
simonsaidit wrote: post #10

I scanned public writable ftps for months back between 97-99 to distribute warez. I Think it was those gov ranges that cost me the relationship with a few ISPs.

Tell us more (I love to hear things about the wares days).

I always enjoyed seeing how quickly the warez puppies would arrive when a clueless sysadmin put up a world-writable anonymous FTP server. Like moth to flame they would come.

Re: I scanned Austria

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Post by arendtio »

For the screenshot collage, the author might have wanted to compare the screenshots and double the size of one of them appeared four times, etc. Similar page would pop-out a bit more (there seem to be quite a few).

Re: I scanned Austria

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Post by duncaen »

bboreham wrote: post #34
Forge36 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the best way to self scan? I recently bought a wifi camera and digging through the settings I couldn't find a way to block external access. Ultimately I had to block is access via my router, however consumer models are terrible about blocking access to the internet.

Most consumer routers will by default block a connection _from_ the Internet. They use a private address range and apply NAT to outgoing connections, so explicit configuration is needed to do something with an incoming connection.

And that is why they implement UPnP to punch holes through it to avoid users having to manually configure routers.
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