I find it pretty funny these days how often I see people getting paranoid about their IP address when back in the 90's/early 2000's it was common to show other people their own IP in chat rooms or on forums to scare them and it didn't work because most people understood it didn't matter.
my best friend in high school (also a nerd) gave me a shirt that says that over 20 years ago! now my son wears it ha. thanks thinkgeek!
Hey! That's my IP address whenever the script kiddies are boasting in chat. How did he get it?
Your comment has 127 points. Would be funny if mine has 0, the comment below mine too, but than someone has 1 point.
Anyways. How are you doing today?
What kind of resources does this guy have? I don't think governments can even do proportional and instantaneous DDOS responses. I messed with the wrong dude.
Okay back in the days of IRC, I met this script kiddie who said he’d hack me, just give him my IP address. So I sent him his IP address and he disappeared suddenly.
There was that one bash.org quote where a script kiddie was given 127.0.0.1 as part of an "oh yeah I dare you" taunt after he said he could hack anyone, and he fell for it hook line and sinker. He was posting things like "Hahaha your K drive is being deleted! Now your H drive! [connection reset by peer]" and right after that the challenger was like "I don't even have a K drive."
(RIP bash.org though. I would have tried to link it otherwise)
When A Stranger Calls (1979)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkcGm-pWwsQ
Or slightly more recently:
When A Stranger Calls (2006)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf2jBo3_T3k
Reminds me of the meme of someone making a website with AI and then said to a bro his programming days were over.
And then proceeds to send the localhost address to the guy.
Yeah, every time I hear something like that I giggle. AI might replace us one day, but it's no where near good enough yet.
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That's probably a VNC/local server listener.
tor listens for socks on 9050 by default. tor uses 5400 as the default DNS port.