{"id":2426,"date":"2010-12-23T23:19:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T22:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2023-12-23T00:11:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T23:11:17","slug":"hacking-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2010\/12\/23\/hacking-me\/","title":{"rendered":"“Hacking me”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you ever wonder how clever it was of me to make an FTP tool<\/a> that used the default anonymous password curl_by_daniel@...<\/code> once upon a time and you want to know why I changed that to\u00a0ftp@example.com instead? Here’s a golden snippet to just absorb and enjoy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:56:00
From: iHack3r <hidden>
To: info@[my company]
Subject: Hacking me

To the idiot named Daniel, Please stop brute force attacking my FTP client. I do not appreciate it, i have an anonymous account set up for the general public to access my files that i want them to access, QUIT trying to hack the admin because 1. DISABLED unless i am leaving to go somewhere without my computer 2: THE PASSWORD is random letters and numbers.

-iHack3r<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The password was changed at Feb 13 2007<\/a> in curl version 7.16.2, but there are a surprisingly large amount of older curls still around out there…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update:<\/strong> as the person responded again after having read this blog post and still didn’t get it, I felt the urge to speak up in even more clear terms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t have anything to do with any “hacker attack” on any site. Not yours, and not anyone else’s. The fact that almost-my-email address appeared in your logs is because I wrote the FTP client. It is a general FTP client that is being used by a very very large amount of people all over the world. If I ever would attack a site, why on earth would I send along my real name or email address?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you ever wonder how clever it was of me to make an FTP tool that used the default anonymous password curl_by_daniel@… once upon a time and you want to know why I changed that to\u00a0ftp@example.com instead? Here’s a golden snippet to just absorb and enjoy: Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:56:00From: iHack3r <hidden>To: info@[my … Continue reading “Hacking me”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[33,507,233],"class_list":["post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curl","category-mail","tag-curl-and-libcurl","tag-email","tag-ftp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23771,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions\/23771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}