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"And when they entered that IP address directly into a browser, the Silk Road’s CAPTCHA prompt appeared, the garbled-letter image designed to prevent spam bots
by philip1209 12y ago
"And when they entered that IP address directly into a browser, the Silk Road’s CAPTCHA prompt appeared, the garbled-letter image designed to prevent spam bots from entering the site."
- scintill76 12y agoOuch. In retrospect, seems like they could have almost brute-forced it, if they had a narrow enough block of IP addresses they thought it was in. Fetch the root page on all the IP addresses looking for something that looks like SR.
- TheLoneWolfling 12y agoYou could probably do that for the entire internet, assuming you had their levels of resources.
- spiritplumber 12y agoIsn't that what the NSA does?
- CJefferson 12y agoYou could do that in the comfort of your own home, with a decent Internet connection (for example with https://zmap.io/ https://zmap.io/)
- jagger27 12y agoWoops, missed that line.