The responses to this issue appear to fall into two groups: The first group doesn't care, and the second group is apoplectic but is unable (or unwilling) to explain why.
Slashdot is Port Scanning Its Users
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Re: Slashdot is Port Scanning Its Users
#12This tactic has probably blocked a million bot posts over the years, so I guess... Sorry... But not really sorry?
Re: Slashdot is Port Scanning Its Users
#13This tactic has probably blocked a million bot posts over the years, so I guess... Sorry... But not really sorry?
I don't understand all the huff on that forum about this. It pings to see if you have some ports open. So what?
Re: Slashdot is Port Scanning Its Users
#14Big deal, the internet is made for devices to connect to each other. So what if they are trying to connect?
Tell me when they attempt a DOS or send funky packets.
Re: Slashdot is Port Scanning Its Users
#15Stages of Open Source:
Run opensource so you can pour through the code and trust that it is secure by finding the issues in the code.
Benefit from the masses of users also pouring through the code to make sure it is safe.
Gain critical mass such that no security flaw goes undiscovered.
Grow complacent and assume all the other users are checking so you don't have.
Gain a large enough install base that malicious contributors add back doors and other nastiness to the code base.
Have a bad thing happen.
Snap out of complacency and start taking security seriously again.
Re: Slashdot is Port Scanning Its Users
#16The issue is with Slashcode that runs many sites including Slashdot , its birthplace.
Can you name another site that uses Slash?
Re: Slashdot is Port Scanning Its Users
#17Both of them are outraged.
Re: Slashdot is Port Scanning Its Users
#18This tactic has probably blocked a million bot posts over the years, so I guess... Sorry... But not really sorry?
I don't understand all the huff on that forum about this. It pings to see if you have some ports open. So what?
The "huff" is that this forum is the attempted community fork of Slashdot that even less people care about.
Re: Slashdot is Port Scanning Its Users
#19The issue is with Slashcode that runs many sites including Slashdot , its birthplace.
Can you name another site that uses Slash?
Soylent News!
Really, Slashcode is just unbelievably horrible. I ran it myself. It's stupidly fragile, you can break it by altering things in the interface and it stores its weblogs in the MySQL database.
I eventually moved everything to WordPress and stopped wanting to STAB MYSELF IN THE FACE REPEATEDLY whenever I wanted to make a post.
Slashcode is not my favourite CMS.
Re: Slashdot is Port Scanning Its Users
#20This tactic has probably blocked a million bot posts over the years, so I guess... Sorry... But not really sorry?
Exactly my thought. I'm a creature of stubborn habit. I still browse when waiting for things or bored.
I'm just glad to see that a lot of GNAA and other crap has largely stopped.
Still see the Golden Girls spam posts, but, out of all the possible crap you could be clogging the internet up with, the Golden Girls aren't a bad way to go.