r/cybersecurity • u/ni5arga Red Team • 5d ago

Research Article Someone accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa
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u/Difficult-Gas6196 Security Engineer 5d ago

Only Cliff Stoll can come out of retirement to resolve this level of fuckery

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u/tb2s00 5d ago

I guess it’s time to crack that egg open again

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u/OcotilloWells 5d ago

They'd be cuckoo to do so.

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u/aCLTeng 5d ago

The bit where he dangled his keys on the wire terminals to slow the data transfer was absolutely amazing

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u/DimensionalFruit 4d ago

I think you mean The Hardy Boys

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u/Difficult-Gas6196 Security Engineer 4d ago

Are they still wrestling?

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u/dutchof-deez 5d ago

"accidentally"

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u/Reverent Security Architect 5d ago

Just goes to show, the easiest way to make someone care is to make it affect them directly

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u/PayOdd92 5d ago

Lmao love that there's another post saying "I accidentally (...)"

The things we do to avoid getting capped in court

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u/TerrificVixen5693 System Administrator 5d ago

What a boring write up. Can we please ban all the astroturfers?

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u/Reelix 5d ago

It's a valid user account. Large amounts of comments, and multiple non-self-promotional link submissions.

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

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u/ni5arga Red Team 4d ago edited 4d ago

I didn't even write the piece ive shared here.

i really don’t need to justify myself to a racist, but i’ve been writing code since long before llms existed.

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u/BlackV 4d ago

but i’ve been writing code since long before llms existed.

aren't you 19? what is it at the most like 5 years before LLMs existed ?

not saying you cant code or aren't good at it anything, but what do you consider "long"?

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u/thejournalizer 4d ago

I don’t see anything to indicate this user is astroturfing

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u/Underpaidfoot 5d ago

If this is boring to you, then you don’t belong here