Maybe they hired this kid.
Honeypot, maybe?
Just in case somebody doesn’t get your joke (I assume it’s a joke?): Private Network
Not sure if the kid is trolling or really honestly that dumb. But I’m leaning toward the latter.
He was young. I bet that somewhere there’s a computer science major who’s embarrassed about his old YouTube account.
Embarrassed, but not clever enough to just take it down?
1.5 million views on that video. Damn.
Good point - I assumed, based on results, the system was being operated by data-entry monkeys, not MIT engineers.
Maybe even law students.
I once told a guy who said he was going to “hack” me that that was my IP address. He suddenly logged out and I never saw him again. I choose to believe he did, in fact, crash himself.
server1$ ifconfig -a
rtk0: flags=8843 mtu 1500
address: d8:5d:4c:82:15:36
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
status: active
inet 10.1.1.14 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.1.1.255
inet6 fe80::da5d:4cff:fe82:1536%rtk0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
rtk1: flags=8843 mtu 1500
address: 94:0c:6d:82:93:cd
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
status: active
inet6 fe80::960c:6dff:fe82:93cd%rtk1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
lo0: flags=8049 mtu 33648
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
pppoe0: flags=8851 mtu 1492
inet 115.69.11.58 -> 203.23.237.10 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 fe80::da5d:4cff:fe82:1536%pppoe0 -> prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
If they are sending takedown notices based on bot searches and involving no human oversight, they deserve no sympathy whatsoever.
This is abuse.
Universal needs to face penalties for abusing the system.
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