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The first time I ever saw a hexadecimal ip was in a spam text message, one of those "click here for your prize". I laughed to myself thinking whoever wrote thei
by squeaky-clean 4y ago
The first time I ever saw a hexadecimal ip was in a spam text message, one of those "click here for your prize". I laughed to myself thinking whoever wrote their spambot had messed up the url but to my surprise the link worked. I didn't ever receive my prize...
- fsckboy 4y agothe education you received was more valuable than any monetary reward. $2k you earn yourself is worth more than $100k given to you for free.
- anaganisk 4y agoWorth it in an ideal world, in the real world it's a bad advice to compare given vs earned. We wouldn't have the majority of the companies if the founders didn't have the wealth given for them to bootstrap.
- kccqzy 4y agoIt's a common trick to evade spam detection, because the writer of the spam detection software probably didn't think about those weird IP address formats and would fail to extract the URL.