full-disclosure - Re: Who's behind limestonenetworks.com AKA DDoS on polipo(8123)

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Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 15:29:04 +0200
From: Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Who's behind limestonenetworks.com AKA DDoS
 on polipo(8123)

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 02:58:41PM -0300, Luther Blissett wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 19:31 +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> 
> > Let me google that for you. Hmm. Assigned to "Polipo Web proxy". So maybe
> > someone tried to connect to them through your exit node and they do proxyscans
> > on people who connect to them?
> > 
> > 
> 
> Sorry but I did not understand this. I had already said it was attempt
> on polipo. What exactly was so dumb in my phrasing that required you to
> rephrase it?

Nothing, I didn't see that you had already looked up what port that is. Sorry
about that.

> > > Before the packet storm,
> > 
> > Oooh, a storm!
> > 
> > 
> Ok, maybe it was just a light wind and my system is the most laughable
> one.

Or maybe it was a light but dangerous wind. :P

Anyway, sorry for the tone in my mail – as others pointed out, it was
inappropriate. :/

Well, I hope you can figure out what caused every pair of bytes to be swapped
in that logfile line (the one where you posted the hexdump).

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