Spoilerwall: Respond to port scanning requests with movie spoilers (opens in new tab)

Surely some enterprising hacker can optimize Nyancat so that a normal server can saturate a gigabit connection without killing the CPU.

I'm sorry, that's terrible, but this sounds hilarious

ok, I've stopped laughing now and and cleaned up the spilled drink. This is brilliant. You need to team up with a CDN and get them supply cats from the nearest available node.

"Unleash the Nyancat!" as they say...

Basically don't offer hackers any data amplification attacks, never respond with more data than it took for the attack to make the request.

Maybe the data usage would have alerted the infected.

I laughed so hard. Sorry...

Perhaps questions like "This statement is false", "New Mission: decline this mission", base64 encoded copies of René Magritte's 'this is not a pipe', "God is all powerful, can He make a rock so big that He Himself can't lift it?", "calculate the 2nd prime number", etc to prevent automated AI attacks.

{"walletPrivateKey": "5HueCGU8rMjxEXxiPuD5BDku4MkFqeZyd4dZ1jvhTVqvbTLvyTJIts-not-Too-Late-To-Be-Saved"}

That idea is just brilliant! Just brilliant!

Also Jolly Roger Telephone Company https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3OxCWLEmoIhNMm-hnvBm9Q/vid...

How does this work? There is definitely huge demand based in other languages!

Thank you for this!!

This is my new obsession for listening to while working.

If the file gets executed as a script, then __name__ == "__main__", hence L43:53 get executed in the top-level scope, which is also available in the lower levels. This isn't very good writing, since this code will throw exceptions when __name__ != "__main__" (i.e. when import-ing the file as a module), which misleadingly defeats the purpose of having that conditional there.

> Quick question

I'm always wondering why people prefix a question with the statement "quick question". Now is my chance to ask. Is the question typed quickly? Should I imagine you speaking it in a quick manner? Is it meant as "off topic question"? Do you expect an answer quickly? What does it mean when you prefix your question with the words "quick question"?

This is a short program that listens on a port and responds to any attempt to connect to that port by sending back movie spoilers. The idea being that anyone that tries to port-scan your machine will be punished by having all the twists in all the best movies revealed.

I guess it listens on all ports, and sends a random spoiler in plain text when someone connects to said port, before closing the connection.

I guess this is supposed to be a joke :)

Looks like the service returns spoiler for movies when contacted on any port. The attacker would get annoyed if all they see is movie spoilers in the logs.

Plot hole.

A human responding to a machine would indeed be silly.

But this is a machine responding to a machine.

I sometimes explain my bugs to recorded telemarketing pitches. They can be very helpful that way.

I'd put it more on the level of setting up a chat bot to talk to another chatbot.

> metal band logo captcha plugin

(Un-)holy captcha, Batman! In retrospect, the idea is so obvious. If I ever get myself a homepage or something, I will put that to good use. =D

Well, that would get me. Some black and splatter death bands have nigh-on unreadable logos. Or it's just an art I never mastered :(

I have moved from port 22 long time ago.

Not that I am aware of, but fail2ban is always an option to help with that.

Here I think the passive voice actually helps and an extra word.

Spoil movie [plots] on all your ports to avoid being scanned. {{by zombies}}

So Russia and China put your servers on their blacklists and you get magical protection from hackers whose last hop comes from those countries? Excellent mitigation :)

Yes we need to fork this into Project Spoilerwall Honeypot.

(They're random - different every request)