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Who if not people / experts reading on hn? Click yourself any server anywhere, download it, analyse it, share your findings.
by Sonnigeszeug 1y ago
Who if not people / experts reading on hn?
Click yourself any server anywhere, download it, analyse it, share your findings.
- miningape 1y agoRight because we all have the time, memory, and sandboxed virtual machine to test this safely without getting hacked. Obvious honeypot is obvious. If you want (technical) people to download your malware you're gonna have to do better than this.
- Sonnigeszeug 1y agoThis goes for me in direction of civil service tbh. and if someone should do something and support, this is the thing we should do. If people on hn, knowing how things work, are skiddisch, what normal people will do? even less.
- miningape 1y agoTo me it goes beyond "civil service" and becomes more like "military service" - you're directly putting yourself in harms way for the collective good. It's not reasonable to expect many users on HN have the setup required to investigate this - sure we're all interested in technology. But we're not all cybersecurity experts. This is the equivalent of your grandma thinking you're a tech genius because you can restart the router. The skills required for this kind of work are specialised.
- Bengalilol 1y agoWhy asking people to do something you should have done first? If there's anything worthy in it, then point to those interesting documents where HN community would be more than happy to help.
- Sonnigeszeug 1y agoI didn't. Someone else did. I clarified the effort and that we all should do it because we are probably the best people to do so.