Comment by claudiosf1

3 days ago

Everything about this story, from the way it’s written to the self destructive outcome, reminds me of the “I hacked 127.0.0.1” episode from some twenty years ago.

[1] a mirror since I couldn’t find the original: https://gist.github.com/Androkai/0a2602719fa72ce454d436bfe28...

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Taniwha  3 days ago

There is also the true story from the first Scientology vs. Internet clash, someone trolled them that their files were being hosted on 127.0.0.1, under a court ordered deposition they tried to find out who was running this server with their secret files (because yes, they'd looked, and they were there)

  • DonHopkins  3 days ago

    True that! Keith Henson's legendary alt.religion.scientology loopback trolling story, with hilarious deposition transcript, in which he patiently explains how 127.0.0.1 works to astonished Scientology lawyers:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791891

    >Just be glad you didn't have to explain an in joke about ftp sites, the local loopback address, and a troll, in a deposition, under oath, to Scientology lawyers, like Keith Henson did.

    [...]

    >Henson: (patiently) It's at 127.0.0.1. This is a loop back address. This is a troll.

    >Lieberman: what's a troll?

    >Henson: it comes from the fishing where you troll a bait along in the water and a fish will jump and bite the thing, and the idea of it is that the internet is a very humorous place and it's especially good to troll people who don't have any sense of humor at all, and this is a troll because an ftp site of 127.0.0.1 doesn't go anywhere. It loops right back around into your own machine.

    >Lieberman [not getting it]: So the idea here was to make the church think that this person had an ftp site and to take action against him and, in fact, he didn't have it; is that your point?

    >Henson: Oh, it's really humorous, and I picked up on it and instantly added something to extend the troll. Extending the trolls like this is an art form of the highest order.

    >Lieberman (acidly): I see. So this is part of your art form where you say, "don't you expect the 'ho to blow a gasket?"

    [...it just gets even funnier from there...]

  • throwaway81523  2 days ago

    That also had "Who is Major Domo?" because they wanted to subpoena him or her, iirc.

    • Taniwha  2 days ago

      Yup, they really wanted to hunt down that guy, he was involved with all the anti-scientology mailing lists

cduzz  3 days ago

The localhost troll works better if you use the decimal representation of it:

http://2130706433

or any integer multiple of that 2130706433

lostlogin  3 days ago

That’s up there with the password story, hunter2.

  • gopher_space  2 days ago

    “How can you tell I’m 13?” from username H|t13r

    Interesting to think about the cost of training a LLM to understand that it’s operating within an unknown number of larger contexts versus sending that quote to an edgy intern.

  • echelon  3 days ago

    https://youtu.be/SXmv8quf_xM

    What's up YouTube, it's NextGenHacker101 and today I'll be teaching you guys how to see other people's IP addresses.

    You can see what their connection speed is and what site they're on.

    Type in Tracer T.

    H T T P semicolon. Well, not semicolon, the little dot dot. Dot dot slash slash.

    Ten people are currently using Google.

    DallasTexas13, obviously his username.

  • jnovek  3 days ago

    What the heck is *******?

    • corobo  3 days ago

      If mind viruses exist this is one of them along with saying "nice" after something is 69 haha

      Weird sort of internet-evolved performance art where people act out the old quote, every time.

      It's 20 years old. Quit having fun!

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inigyou  3 days ago

You can use any address starting with, 127 to make it a bit less obvious. E.g. 127.48.135.63