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userbinator
on June 27, 2017
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Spoilerwall: Respond to port scanning requests wit...
Somewhat tangentially related: a long time ago, certain scanning tools would crash or otherwise not react well to getting a stream of /dev/urandom. You could consider this the more human version.
mattstreet
on June 27, 2017
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And then someone uses you in an DoS amplification attack instead of going after you directly.
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