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From the title I assumed this was going to be something else. I remember some sites used to port scan you on registration. This was to check if registrations we
by discreditable 6y ago
From the title I assumed this was going to be something else. I remember some sites used to port scan you on registration. This was to check if registrations were from an open proxy, which was a very strong bot indicator. I might be misremembering but I think Slashdot used to do it. There were also some plugins for phpBB forums that did it too. I used one back in the day and it helped quite a bit with spam registrations.
- machello13 6y agoHow did port scanning work back then before WebSockets?
- r1ch 6y agoThese were external scans - see if the visitor's IP is running an open SOCKS or HTTP proxy for example. Many IRC networks still port scan you on connect for the same reason.
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- Deimorz 6y agoYes, I definitely remember Slashdot doing it, but it was more often than just on registration. Here's an article from 2014 about it, which says that it happens on every login and posting a comment: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/04/09/1925245 https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/04/09/1925245 At the bottom of that post it says the code was added on 2008-04-16 19:07:46 +0000.
- discreditable 6y agoThat sounds right. To test I ran a capture on my gateway and it seems like they aren't scanning 8080 or 3128 on login or post nowadays.