• monobot@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    I remember, at that time, I was more worried about how admins in my local ISP spend their time than some far away company.

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      7 months ago

      I still remember being a young kid (11-12) and running a program to scan my local ISP in my small town (back then small ISPs could easily get government grants and become a monopoly) for insecure SMB servers or something. I suddenly got a flood of results like

      • /private/passwords.txt

      • /administrator/USD###-users.txt

      All kinds of tasty things. Very excite. Then the results started pouring in by the thousands…

      • YOU-ARE-VIOLATING-CFAA

      • FBI-DOORBELL

      • FIRSTNAME-LASTNAME.EXE

      • PWN3D-LMAONOOB

      Things like that. I immediately shut my computer down and that was probably the first time my dad saw me not eat for a day. Didn’t ask why I wasn’t sleeping much the week after that 😄

      Also I Googled for the filenames and found nothing. So if you’re the 50-70 year old who wrote that script and happen to see this, I’d love to get a message with the ISP name. They are in a number of small-medium size towns around my hometown now.