Ok, a night of rest was good! It was later than I thought (11:45) but I still felt much better when I got up in the morning. So where was I.
Oh yea, looking forward to fixing more bugs and putting some new functionality into my stuff today. There’s a lobster dinner thing that Silv is taking me to for the rotary in ‘wack. Busy week. Out tues, wed, thurs (actually I didn’t, but I was supposed to I thought), fri, sat (garden party at The Chief’s). Hmm… ArcterMom’s birthday is coming up, better prepare for that too!
Oh yea, the “stuff fixed up” and “problems dealt with” refer to me finding that my ftp site at arcterex.net was being used as a warez repository for some folks in .be and .fr. If they hadn’t have nuked an upload I might not have noticed for another day or so. A dirctory in /incoming of ” “/” “/” ” was created, followed by the directories 1-9, each containing directories 1-9, each with dirs 1-9, and each of those with dirs 1-9 (that’s 4 layers folks). An interesting (and obviously scripted) countermeasure, increasing the time it took me to get to the “good stuff” by about 3.2 seconds. Anyway, they uploaded warez, mp3s (the Eric Clapton album I was thinking “oh, they have taste then” was incomplete, little bastards), movies (no pr0n unfortunately, only french commercials, and lame looking ones at that) and the start of some divx movies. I was considering screwing with them (substituting bo2k or virii for their warez) or letting them continue, but nuking someone’s download is just not right. Firewall filters went on, FTP site was reconfigured so anonymous users can’t create directories, and all is well now 🙂
The funny thing is that now they are on my system again, this time downloading, downloading, downloading 🙂 I wonder what the logs will say about them trying to create directories. wavez and greetz to 212.68.239.199.brutele.be