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If true, this is an excellent chance for white hat flooding. Knock, and keep that ip offline. With no way to change locationation(DNS), their little ad sceme
by b112 4y ago
If true, this is an excellent chance for white hat flooding.
Knock, and keep that ip offline. With no way to change locationation(DNS), their little ad sceme won't work.
Even better if it makes companies shy about using such methods.
- jsjohnst 4y ago> white hat flooding Very curious definition of “white hat” you have
- b112 4y agoA white hat works for the public good, yes?
- jsjohnst 4y agoSure, but is vigilantism for the public good?
- ForHackernews 4y ago
- gruez 4y agoClose, but no. >A white hat (or a white hat hacker) is an ethical security hacker.[1] Ethical hacking is a term meant to imply a broader category than just penetration testing.[2][3] Under the owner's consent, white hat hackers aim to identify any vulnerabilities the current system has. [...] There is a third kind of hacker known as a grey hat who hacks with good intentions but at times without permission.[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hat_(computer_security) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hat_(computer_security)
- fragmede 4y agotraditionally, white hat means working with companies to help identify weaknesses in their systems, and getting inside with their consent.
- User23 4y agoThat sounds like helping to secure my home network from unwanted spyware and tracking to me.
- beanders 4y agoThis would be what I term “green hat”, gray with a flavor of robbing the rich to feed the poor.
- happyopossum 4y agoWell, no - GP an isn’t exactly correct. They use DNS, they just won’t use your configured DNS. You can play NAT tricks to force all UDP dns queries to your pihole or other DNS based blocker, but they can just as easily use DOH.
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