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by ransackdev 3y ago
I'd like to know where companies like https://www.hawkanalytics.com/cellhawk/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_Reveal get location data on US citizens legally without the permission of t
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by ransackdev 3y ago
If the hotspot were compromised, why would you connect to it at all?
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by ransackdev 3y ago
> NOTE: I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice. This is for informational and entertainment purposes only Asking because I don't know - I see this a lot, but is it necessary? Surely we don't live in a time where a comm
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by ransackdev 3y ago
Irony; NSA, CISA, and DOJ release cybersecurity bulletin as a pdf attachment
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by ransackdev 3y ago
> This just sounds like a gateway to the widespread open robbery and stealing If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
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by ransackdev 3y ago
Do you type faster than what javascript is able to handle?
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by ransackdev 3y ago
Couple things to consider 1. Check your competitors who return json and see if they have a Location header 301'ing or 302'ing all their traffic to your service (if the client follows redirects). 2. Reverse dns lookup your origin i
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by ransackdev 3y ago
You mentioned low income countries. This could be infected devices running ancient unpatched OSes, but what if the traffic is legit, coming from impoverished countries who found your service and use it to teach their children and learn thin
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by ransackdev 3y ago
There's a huge difference between blocking traffic to keep your servers online (you are the good guy) and returning payloads that are intended to break consuming services (you are the bad guy, performing a premeditated malicious act on
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by ransackdev 3y ago
You didn't get kicked out, you got played. They bank on the fact that most people will eat less than the price of admission, kinda almost like the ones who under eat the admission cost subsidize the ones who overeat the admission cost.
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by ransackdev 3y ago
pihole and other dns blocklists would reduce traffic to their service, not increase it
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by ransackdev 3y ago
> there's a reasonable common sense expectation Your logic error is in assuming all people have common sense and setting expectations based on that assumption. This actually has nothing to do with common sense, a jr and sometimes ev
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by ransackdev 3y ago
> rolled out an update to hundreds of thousands of millions of devices with simply emailing me if that's ok. If it's malware, they don't care if it's ok, they are malware authors. Contact your hosting provider which 1
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by ransackdev 3y ago
Think of your average engineer doing mobile development. "Here, hit this url to get the device ip". They write the code, it makes 1 request. The average backend engineer isn't performance focused, why would the average mobile
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by ransackdev 3y ago
CAPTCHA is for humans while this json service is for machines
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by ransackdev 3y ago
Building the paid features announced 3 years ago would pay for compute as well as bandwidth. If the service runs at a loss after that, shut it down or start reaching out to these companies that have integrated it into their products and ask
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by ransackdev 3y ago
Welcome to the internet. Install pfsense/opnsense and run your own firewall at home and you'll be shocked at the flood of non-stop portscans hitting your ip getting blocked. This is par for the course and there is nothing you can
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by ransackdev 3y ago
The site advertises itself as free for all and unlimited usage. To suddenly return malicious responses to intentionally break these apps might very well be illegal in many countries, or maybe would make them liable for damages claims. These
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by ransackdev 3y ago
> That kind of increase in traffic costs me money I've never had to plan for. https://getjsonip.com/#plus Going further with jsonip Plus With the upcoming Plus service, you get special features and even mor
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by ransackdev 3y ago
icanhazip.com had similar issues. Cloudflare took over the project https://major.io/2021/06/06/a-new-future-for-icanhazip/ Fyi, dns can be used to obtain public ip from large companies, without the overh
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by ransackdev 3y ago
Relevant video from Veritasium on cosmic rays flipping bits and causing chaos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaZ_RSt0KP8
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by ransackdev 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI
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by ransackdev 3y ago
Tip: `sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop` after installing ubuntu server for arm since there is no desktop for arm installable iso (that is obvious from their downloads page)
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by ransackdev 3y ago
Sorry to be the one who brings you up to speed, but this is just adding one more option for both the gov and civilians to track people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_Reveal As for randos tracking women, or anyone,
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by ransackdev 3y ago
Or install an opensource gem[1] that recreates the functionality using the same redis rpoplpush[2] command [1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ruby/gems/sidekiq-reliable-fet... [2] https://redis.io&