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Who exactly are "they"? Other than someone with a blog post saying whitelist this ip and claiming "no monkey business, promise!" No time/interest to vet them.
by njharman 13y ago
Who exactly are "they"? Other than someone with a blog post saying whitelist this ip and claiming "no monkey business, promise!" No time/interest to vet them.
Also, did their webpage get hacked and that ip changed?
Will someone with access to their machines network succumb to maliciously using or selling access to this widely whitelisted ip?
Seven years from now will that ip still be theirs?
- LukeShu 13y agoI'm not saying that these aren't good points, just that gp's comment about lube was out of place. They aren't trying to fuck you. And we're not talking about a literal software-implemented whitelist, just a "it probably isn't worth investigating or sending complaints" whitelist. That makes the seven-years point less important.
- robertgraham 13y ago"They" are me. What's up with this belief that anybody you haven't heard of is a member of some shadowy organization? I'm a well known security researcher, I give several presentations a year at cybersec conferences, and my blog gets regularly link to from news.ycombinator.com. Also, the post above excludes the first part of that: "We are happy to add your IP addresses to our blacklist so we won't ever scan you again".
- jacquesm 13y agoWell, as long as you own that IP. So once whitelisted and you switch to a new IP that IP stays whitelisted.
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoIts safe to assume on the Internet that anybody that comes to you, is a bot or a scam of some kind. Not a surprise to you, a security consultant. I understand frustration that you can't convince everyone that you are a good guy. All good guys these days have that problem. Even the good folks at the NSA ( you aren't one of them, are you? )