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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by exu@feditown.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

Edit: The post was probably heavily AI written and contains mistakes to that effect, which is unfortunate. The data in general is still interesting though.

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[-] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

If they used AI, then I consider they lost all credibility.

[-] magnue@lemmy.world -5 points 4 weeks ago

Oh so you want them to do all that and gather all the data and do it themselves for free? What a dumb comment.

I've run a honeypot for the last month and the data is near-identical to this. It's definitely credible.

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Oh so you want them to do all that and gather all the data and do it themselves for free?

Yes, that is what 90% of the internet has been about since it became a thing. Doing everything for profit turns everything into shit.

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago

I initially disagreed but after actually reading the post, I'm with you. If it was only the article's text that was generated and not the data or graphs then I don't see why the whole thing would be written off. I mean, it's really sad seeing people offload their writing to AI but I still found it interesting.

[-] magnue@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah I hate the slop but the data is good.

[-] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago

Near-identical doesn't make it valuable. Plausible but incorrect is still incorrect. AI creates plausible and credible but incorrect data.

The plausibility and credibility is like a honeypot for your confidence. You read it, and understand it, and come to believe it. But it was false all along. You think you learned things. You actually learned nothing.

[-] magnue@lemmy.world -2 points 4 weeks ago

Sounds like AI

[-] null@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 weeks ago

I'm kind of disappointed that bigboobz wasn't on the top of the password list.

[-] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 4 weeks ago

Thanks for the warning OP

[-] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

The Belgian traffic? Almost entirely from a single residential IP — one box that sent over 156,000 login attempts, more than the entire country of Germany. It just sat there, hammering echo "\x6F\x6B" over and over, every single second, for weeks. Relentless.

Had a funny similar thing, there's some weird person/people that randomly probe and attack a specific game's community hosted dedicated servers; and one week this specific IP address out of Virginia was just hammering one of mine, with what amounts to a specific byte sequence, then an incrementing number of the packet (until it wrapped around). Then it stopped. Weird shit.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago

It's possible it was something misconfigured, a poorly-written script, or a bug in some software causing unexpected behavior. At the scale of the Internet, all of those are very possible.

It could also be the Internet equivalent of a numbers station.

[-] magnue@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Weird I did the exact same thing on a VPS. Basically the same data.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 weeks ago

So is there a socket container for this? Wi wouldn't mind wasting some hacker assholes time with this

[-] sommerset@thelemmy.club 0 points 4 weeks ago

Honeypot as a Python script in a docker container?
Isn't that not really a true isolation?

[-] baller_w@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 weeks ago

Please say more.

I use both on a daily basis and from what I understand, there’s no implicit access from within a container. If you set it up right, there’s no access outside the container of any sort unless you explicitly say so.

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Unless the container had a bug that they know but you don't know.

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