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Spoilerwall: Respond to port scanning requests with movie spoilers

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

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Post by indexerror »

acchow wrote: post #2

I have tried to parse this sentence 10 times and do not understand. Reading the Github README did not help at all. Can someone explain what is happening?

Looks like the service returns spoiler for movies when contacted on any port. The attacker would get annoyed if all they see is movie spoilers in the logs.

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

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Post by roblabla »

acchow wrote: post #2

I have tried to parse this sentence 10 times and do not understand. Reading the Github README did not help at all. Can someone explain what is happening?

I guess it listens on all ports, and sends a random spoiler in plain text when someone connects to said port, before closing the connection.

I guess this is supposed to be a joke :)

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

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Post by saulrh »

acchow wrote: post #2

I have tried to parse this sentence 10 times and do not understand. Reading the Github README did not help at all. Can someone explain what is happening?

This is a short program that listens on a port and responds to any attempt to connect to that port by sending back movie spoilers. The idea being that anyone that tries to port-scan your machine will be punished by having all the twists in all the best movies revealed.
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