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What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by thijson »

bronlund wrote: post #49

The unfair match between good and bad has most likely been a conundrum for thousands of years. Multiple solutions has been proposed as to how to deal with the bad ones, including; kill them, forgive them, educate and reform them - but nothing really seems to work. One solution might be to gather them all up and send them to another planet were they can live as they please without bothering the good ones - and some mi…

I think I saw an article recently where someone used the http protocol to serve gzipped content that was specially crafted to explode in size on the receiver side. This could be a good preventative to crawlers as they don't typically have that much space dedicated to each instance.

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by NBJack »

I've loved this site since I first learned about it. In today's increasingly densified office spaces (in my area at least), this has been an even bigger help to me.

The latest app redesign has been fantastic.

It's worth a small donation just to get access to the huge library he built.

Note that the vast majority of his content is stuff he, personally, recorded on site, mixed, and sliced into equalizer bands. That includes an Irish coastline, an underground waterway, and several forests.

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by bronlund »

ValentineC wrote: post #59
bronlund wrote: post #49

The unfair match between good and bad has most likely been a conundrum for thousands of years. Multiple solutions has been proposed as to how to deal with the bad ones, including; kill them, forgive them, educate and reform them - but nothing really seems to work. One solution might be to gather them all up and send them to another planet were they can live as they please without bothering the good ones - and some mi…

> One solution might be to gather them all up and send them to another planet were they can live as they please without bothering the good ones - and some might suggest that this is exactly what they did and here we are :) Sounds like we're the bad ones here.

If we take the planet as a whole, we definitely are!

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by bronlund »

erikerikson wrote: post #58
tux1968 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> gather them all up and send them to another planet... Has been tried before, they started with telephone sanitizers, hairdressers, and advertising account executives

I thought you were talking about Australia

:D

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by bronlund »

thijson wrote: post #61
bronlund wrote: post #49

The unfair match between good and bad has most likely been a conundrum for thousands of years. Multiple solutions has been proposed as to how to deal with the bad ones, including; kill them, forgive them, educate and reform them - but nothing really seems to work. One solution might be to gather them all up and send them to another planet were they can live as they please without bothering the good ones - and some mi…

I think I saw an article recently where someone used the http protocol to serve gzipped content that was specially crafted to explode in size on the receiver side. This could be a good preventative to crawlers as they don't typically have that much space dedicated to each instance.

I like the general idea of having zero tolerance for bad behaviour.

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by rvnx »

drpixie wrote: post #50

1. Don't take it personally. They don't know or care who you are. 2. Some kind of rate limiter is becoming essential for servers. Scanning/probing is worse than rude but there's plenty of obnoxious out there. Fail2ban can easily be configured to handle simple login or vulnerability scans. If there's not something similar for web servers, it wouldn't be hard to write one. Anyone know of fail2ban or rate-limiters for w…

Needs to put Cloudflare (free plan) in front of the website and the problem is fixed

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by sleepybrett »

rvnx wrote: post #66
drpixie wrote: post #50

1. Don't take it personally. They don't know or care who you are. 2. Some kind of rate limiter is becoming essential for servers. Scanning/probing is worse than rude but there's plenty of obnoxious out there. Fail2ban can easily be configured to handle simple login or vulnerability scans. If there's not something similar for web servers, it wouldn't be hard to write one. Anyone know of fail2ban or rate-limiters for w…

Needs to put Cloudflare (free plan) in front of the website and the problem is fixed

I imagine something can be rigged with fail2ban as well.

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by reddalo »

rvnx wrote: post #66
drpixie wrote: post #50

1. Don't take it personally. They don't know or care who you are. 2. Some kind of rate limiter is becoming essential for servers. Scanning/probing is worse than rude but there's plenty of obnoxious out there. Fail2ban can easily be configured to handle simple login or vulnerability scans. If there's not something similar for web servers, it wouldn't be hard to write one. Anyone know of fail2ban or rate-limiters for w…

Needs to put Cloudflare (free plan) in front of the website and the problem is fixed

The state of the internet is a bit sad if we need to collectively rely on Cloudflare. And we don't even have other free alternatives (that I know of).

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by socalgal2 »

hackers effectively killed https://glslsandbox.com It's been closed for about a year and a half because some hackers spammed it and no one has time to deal with it. There are other sites like shadertoy that do something similar but still, it sucks to see someone's project get shit on by assholes.

As for denial of service issues, because it's free I've mostly hidden behind cloudflare in the hope of not having to personally deal with those kinds of issues on my own stuff.

It's always annoying to me the hacker attitude of "it's your fault if I can break your stuff. You should have implemented it better". Well, I can break your windows, your door, your body and it wouldn't be an excuse that it's your fault because it's possible. Still, I know it's impossible to get rid of the assholes so ...

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