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Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by metildaa »

freedomben wrote: post #53
GordonS wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your first point is definitely correct. Your second point though... really? Do you have any sources for anyone, anywhere being charged for using ping?

No, I haven't heard of anyone being criminally charged for ping, but I have known someone whose ISP cut them off and he had to go through an onerous process to get service restored. I've also heard of people that use EC2 instances and get their AWS account terminated.

AWS is also overzealous about DMCA notices. If you go to other providers like Scaleway, they'll forward any abuse complaints but you don't have to do anything about them.

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by yojo »

nathancahill wrote: post #52
lordnacho wrote: post #39

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Fridge related trick: In certain countries you could get carbon credits for closing down old factories that made old style CFC fridges, because of course those are not great for the environment. So then some wily operators started building new "old factories" that they could get credits for in order to "convert" to new factories. Story was told by a friend of mine in the industry at the time, I don't recall the finer…

There's an initiative in Guatemala where land owners are paid an amount of money every year for each acre of their land that they reforest. Naturally, land owners immediately started clear-cutting virgin rainforest, selling the lumber, and then collecting a payout from the government for planting pine trees that they'll raise for 10 years before they'll cut them down for lumber too.

Sounds like another example of the cobra effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by LilBytes »

GordonS wrote: post #45
freedomben wrote: post #36

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ICMP is blocked by default now in many firewall setups, so unless the admin specifically allows ICMP the packets will likely be dropped. Also, be careful as "host discovery" can be viewed as a type of "hacking" depending on who you are and who is watching/judging you.

Your first point is definitely correct. Your second point though... really? Do you have any sources for anyone, anywhere being charged for using ping?

With regards to the second point, definitely.

Quite a few years ago the security team of the organisation I worked at didn't have our internal vulnerability scanning services automated. It relied on them capturing the IPv4 addresses (specifically the /32's, not the subnets) and manually entering them into the engine.

Our security team mistyped a handful of these addresses and instead of the scan running across our internal infrastructure, we scanned WalMarts external facing infrastructure in the US from Australia.

These scans were happening semi-regularly for a period of a few weeks before we received a cease and desist and the sec. team realised their error. I'm still rather surprised more didn't come of it.

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by sundvor »

Waterluvian wrote: post #49
alexpotato wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This reminds me of a conversation I had with the AC repairman last year. Backstory: we have an old AC unit that uses freon. The repairman mentioned that freon is no longer available for new AC units. I asked if you could still buy freon and he said yes, existing supplies were grandfathered in. I then commented that the price of freon must have sky-rocketed and he said: "yes, it did for a while but then it became chea…

This is how I feel climate change will be tackled (whether too late or not). It will just become cheaper to go green and being green is just a side effect.

Yet initiatives like Carbon tax have been shot down (Australia) by big money, putting dangerous delays into the schedule.

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Post by closetohome »

I love that they desperately tried to file for a restraining order the day before Christmas.

Why do grifters like this always get so defensive? If he'd just played it cool he would absolutely have had time to wind down his operation and move the money somewhere safe. Now he's just going to go to jail.

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by luckydata »

Waterluvian wrote: post #49
alexpotato wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This reminds me of a conversation I had with the AC repairman last year. Backstory: we have an old AC unit that uses freon. The repairman mentioned that freon is no longer available for new AC units. I asked if you could still buy freon and he said yes, existing supplies were grandfathered in. I then commented that the price of freon must have sky-rocketed and he said: "yes, it did for a while but then it became chea…

This is how I feel climate change will be tackled (whether too late or not). It will just become cheaper to go green and being green is just a side effect.

Hopefully we don't all die in wildfires, food and clean water shortages before then.

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by coding123 »

bvdba wrote: post #32
Arnt wrote: post #25

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At what share of deployment would you consider v6 as happening — 10%? 20%? 40%? 60%? 80%? 90? Or would you require even more than 100% of the people who have v4 access?

When it becomes viable to market IPv6-only home connections.

That's exciting then, because that's already happening! ;)
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