The Sand Trap

1:31 PM

so recently I learned that you can buy 128TB microsd cards

yes, terabytes

2:25 PM

@Ginger I'm real tempted to blast the phishing url with a bunch of phony emails and passwords :p

@Ginger Do it

Via a VPN though

shame I don't have one of those

Better to use a shitty free one anyway

if you pay for something it can always be tracked

ShittyFreeVPN(tm)

would Tor be suitable for such purposes?

2:27 PM

@mousetail what would you suggest

for a vpn

(keep this in OTTNB plz)

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as you wish

thabs

so what should I use

@Ginger All free VPN is terrible, I used Hide.me a lot for unbanning myself

I want to screw with this bastard for daring to harm pypi

You can also use proxy servers like this freeproxyserver.co

all of them will have very low speed and reliability though

2:28 PM

neat

What about Tor

lemme just take a look at the site in question

Tor should work too

Welp time to go on the dark web and do a little trolling

Let us know if you survive

2:29 PM

...

it's giving me a 404???

@Ginger The scam site?

hold your horses lyxal

@mousetail yup

Probably taken down already

awesome

Discord scammers switch domains every few days normally, sometimes hours

2:30 PM

it's requiring a log in

eh?

via legit google

@lyxal Don't do it

@mousetail well duh

but I think it's because it's been taken down

Just making sure

2:31 PM

yup, it's gone

big spicy!

It will resurface with a new URL soon

Probably already has

ohoho

@lyxal prepare the lazer cannons

it is time to do a little trolling

check yalls emails if you have pypi packages

I don't see anything rn

ring me if something new develops

Is the backend still up at the domain linkedopports[dot]com.

that gives a 404 too

but I don't know the exact address the data was sent to

Hmmm

Domain registered in Moscow, no surprise there

2:38 PM

oh no, the commies are trying to steal our precious [requests]!

I mean they tried to steal NGINX

>:(

Almost succesfully

The guy had to flee Russia

it would appear that someone on twitter reported the site to Google who then took it down

@Ginger Makes sense, but it only a temporary solution

2:46 PM

well now we wait for the site to reappear

It's likely we won't even notice

they'll be more subtle next time, target a smaller group

ah well

life on the internet continues as normal

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DLosc

8:51 PM

r/showerthoughts: More than half of printable ASCII is letters.

Somehow, this never occurred to me before.

emanresu A

huh yeah

~~it's almost like they're important in some way~~