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Everything about this story, from the way it’s written to the self destructive outcome, reminds me of the “I hacked 127.0.0.1” episode from some twenty years ag
by claudiosf1 4mo ago
Everything about this story, from the way it’s written to the self destructive outcome, reminds me of the “I hacked 127.0.0.1” episode from some twenty years ago.
[1] a mirror since I couldn’t find the original: https://gist.github.com/Androkai/0a2602719fa72ce454d436bfe28cd100 https://gist.github.com/Androkai/0a2602719fa72ce454d436bfe28...
- colinmarc 4mo agoI would very much like to read the German, if anyone has it.
- lostlogin 4mo agoThat’s up there with the password story, hunter2.
- jnovek 4mo agoWhat the heck is *******?
- thot_experiment 4mo agoThat's so neat that if you type your hacker news password it automatically comes out as stars! ******* More places should have this feature.
- ndsipa_pomu 4mo agoI just uses stars as my password, so that works everywhere for me. (For security, I won't let you know how many stars)
- jeremyjh 4mo agoThis is perfectly safe as long as you keep your username a secret.
- ndsipa_pomu 4mo agoI try to use stars as my username, but a lot of places won't allow it
- brookst 4mo agoYeah it’s one of those words that gets snapped up early, like https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stars https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stars
- ndsipa_pomu 4mo agoThat doesn't look like a well used account - how do I get it transferred to me? Edit: never mind, I guessed the password as it was only five stars.
- csomar 4mo agoLet me try: ******* Edit: it does really work.
- cwnyth 4mo agoI miss bash.org. Now excuse me, I have a cyber date, and I need to put on my robe and wizard hat.
- tobiasu 4mo agohttps://bash-org-archive.com/ https://bash-org-archive.com/
- linsomniac 4mo agoStill, every time someone accidentally disconnects from a video meeting or the like I say "That wasn't my speaker cable."
- echelon 4mo agohttps://youtu.be/SXmv8quf_xM https://youtu.be/SXmv8quf_xM What's up YouTube, it's NextGenHacker101 and today I'll be teaching you guys how to see other people's IP addresses. You can see what their connection speed is and what site they're on. Type in Tracer T. H T T P semicolon. Well, not semicolon, the little dot dot. Dot dot slash slash. Ten people are currently using Google. DallasTexas13, obviously his username.
- gopher_space 4mo ago“How can you tell I’m 13?” from username H|t13r Interesting to think about the cost of training a LLM to understand that it’s operating within an unknown number of larger contexts versus sending that quote to an edgy intern.
- Taniwha 4mo agoThere is also the true story from the first Scientology vs. Internet clash, someone trolled them that their files were being hosted on 127.0.0.1, under a court ordered deposition they tried to find out who was running this server with their secret files (because yes, they'd looked, and they were there)
- deleted 4mo ago[deleted]
- DonHopkins 4mo agoTrue that! Keith Henson's legendary alt.religion.scientology loopback trolling story, with hilarious deposition transcript, in which he patiently explains how 127.0.0.1 works to astonished Scientology lawyers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791891 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791891 >Just be glad you didn't have to explain an in joke about ftp sites, the local loopback address, and a troll, in a deposition, under oath, to Scientology lawyers, like Keith Henson did. [...] >Henson: (patiently) It's at 127.0.0.1. This is a loop back address. This is a troll. >Lieberman: what's a troll? >Henson: it comes from the fishing where you troll a bait along in the water and a fish will jump and bite the thing, and the idea of it is that the internet is a very humorous place and it's especially good to troll people who don't have any sense of humor at all, and this is a troll because an ftp site of 127.0.0.1 doesn't go anywhere. It loops right back around into your own machine. >Lieberman [not getting it]: So the idea here was to make the church think that this person had an ftp site and to take action against him and, in fact, he didn't have it; is that your point? >Henson: Oh, it's really humorous, and I picked up on it and instantly added something to extend the troll. Extending the trolls like this is an art form of the highest order. >Lieberman (acidly): I see. So this is part of your art form where you say, "don't you expect the 'ho to blow a gasket?" [...it just gets even funnier from there...]
- nzealand 4mo agoEarly internet wisdom was "don't feed the trolls" - I never realized trolling was from fishing.
- darkwater 4mo agoOh that sounds like WinNuke? Good times back then!
- cduzz 4mo agoThe localhost troll works better if you use the decimal representation of it: http://2130706433 or any integer multiple of that 2130706433
- inigyou 4mo agoYou can use any address starting with, 127 to make it a bit less obvious. E.g. 127.48.135.63