Vigilante server administrator is fixing insecure routers without permission

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/10/12/vigilante-server-administrator.html

12 Likes

Hi Alexey, Please come fix my network. My IP address is…

5 Likes

A few said “thanks,” but most were outraged.

The very definition of idiocy

5 Likes

Listen kid, we’re all in it together.

10 Likes

We are actually living in a parody of a dystopia.
If you would have told me that we will have vigilante severadministartors 10 years ago I would have laught at you.

16 Likes

Strange days, indeed

Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear grey hats.

Or white hats

1 Like

21 Likes
5 Likes

4 Likes

Excuse me I was clearly a minute ahead of you

4 Likes

Big, fat like for the picture!

6 Likes

I wonder if he’d actually get happier responses if he rebranded as a ‘proactive cloud-centric solutions provider’ and sent invoices rather than polite explanations.

12 Likes

He is a Knight of the rainbow table.

6 Likes

That was the best image to use for the article, that I could imagine, @frauenfelder.

7 Likes

Guy’s name was Tuttle? Buttle? Something like that.

7 Likes

This is exactly what happens in Cory Doctorow’s “Knights of the Rainbow Table”.

Good thing I scrolled down. I was about to post something about that.

giphy

2 Likes