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Your script doesn't seem to assign any of the printed IPs to ASNs registered to you, so your joke kind of misses the mark a bit.
by 0x0 7y ago
Your script doesn't seem to assign any of the printed IPs to ASNs registered to you, so your joke kind of misses the mark a bit.
- _-___________-_ 7y agoI added an edit to make it more clear, but I was talking about the title.
- wut42 7y agoThere's nothing wrong with the title. Obtained means "To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way".
- _-___________-_ 7y agoWhich is quite literally what my script does :) Think about if the title said "800K email addresses obtained illegitimately", and what you would interpret the meaning of that to be.
- wut42 7y agoFor emails, I would think they just got the address. For IPs addresses, I would think they got an assignation as well, because IPs numbers without assignations are worthless. It all depends on the context.
- sbarre 7y agoI know pedantry is a HN thing, but I suspect the majority of the audience here understood what "obtained" meant in this context. This seems like a particularly weird hill for you to repeatedly die on.
- NullPrefix 7y agoA money printing machine >printf("$100");
- skywhopper 7y agoI would expect a database of valid email addresses had been compromised. Context of what is being “obtained” matters, of course. But the sum total of valid IP addresses is a fixed, finite, and well-known value. Can you write a script to generate all valid email addresses?
- _-___________-_ 7y agoI can, and it does eventually complete, but it might take a while.