lbft
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Like it or not, there are HF skid scum everywhere there are cheap VPSes, and lots of people (me included) came here from another site targeting that cheap VPS market.
I wish it were true that "you all know who they are", but plenty of them are at least smart enough not to post about their booters and RATs and other tripe or threaten people who disagree with them in related IRC channels. The visible morons are only the tip of the iceberg-sized turd uncomfortably sitting in every technical forum's underpants.
Some of them are even "providers", given the amount of DDoS that flies around for simply posting an offer on that other site or daring to do business in a particular market segment in a particular country.
So yes, I think technical information is important. I think discussion is important so we can all know how to defend our servers (and part of that defence is understanding your attackers' methods). And skids are going to get their grubby hands on tools that will allow them to cause harm eventually. But as soon as they know they can come here and get something they just have to not drool on too hard and run it, they'll start participating more, and turn this place into the "cest pit" none of us want it to be.
So personally I hope for more technical write-ups, or discussion, or even non-specific examples of types of attacks and how to mitigate them - because it makes us all more secure, and it's less accessible to dangerous morons. But I draw the line at anything that attracts pests.
Edit: I'm speaking generally here about the principle of posting proof of concept code here, not this specific case. This isn't the first time this discussion has come up.
I wish it were true that "you all know who they are", but plenty of them are at least smart enough not to post about their booters and RATs and other tripe or threaten people who disagree with them in related IRC channels. The visible morons are only the tip of the iceberg-sized turd uncomfortably sitting in every technical forum's underpants.
Some of them are even "providers", given the amount of DDoS that flies around for simply posting an offer on that other site or daring to do business in a particular market segment in a particular country.
So yes, I think technical information is important. I think discussion is important so we can all know how to defend our servers (and part of that defence is understanding your attackers' methods). And skids are going to get their grubby hands on tools that will allow them to cause harm eventually. But as soon as they know they can come here and get something they just have to not drool on too hard and run it, they'll start participating more, and turn this place into the "cest pit" none of us want it to be.
So personally I hope for more technical write-ups, or discussion, or even non-specific examples of types of attacks and how to mitigate them - because it makes us all more secure, and it's less accessible to dangerous morons. But I draw the line at anything that attracts pests.
Edit: I'm speaking generally here about the principle of posting proof of concept code here, not this specific case. This isn't the first time this discussion has come up.
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