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minus-squaremelroy@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoI don’t know what is worse Dogecoin and all that BS, or FBI that is on purpose to become a bad actor…
minus-squareKyrgizion@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoIt’s called a honeypot. They even ran CP servers in the past (after taking them over from the actual admins, in order to unmask the users).
minus-squaremelroy@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoAgreed honeypots are maybe a good thing.
minus-squaremelroy@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoYou can also run honeypots… Even at home, if you can configure your VM and network securely. Like this: https://github.com/telekom-security/tpotce You could lurk users/bots into hacking your honeypot and then report it to let’s say: https://www.abuseipdb.com/
I don’t know what is worse Dogecoin and all that BS, or FBI that is on purpose to become a bad actor…
It’s called a honeypot. They even ran CP servers in the past (after taking them over from the actual admins, in order to unmask the users).
Agreed honeypots are maybe a good thing.
You can also run honeypots… Even at home, if you can configure your VM and network securely. Like this: https://github.com/telekom-security/tpotce
You could lurk users/bots into hacking your honeypot and then report it to let’s say: https://www.abuseipdb.com/