Hacker for Hire

It’s been a long time since I’ve actually had to think about using Denyhosts and if you’ve read my post before, you’ll know I’ll swear by it’s functionality.

Recently, we’ve been getting hit by lots of SSH brute force attacks at HTG … and hit hard. The most recent stat was more than 2400 failed login attempts from over 50 unique attackers in a 24 hour period. Most times, I don’t care as long as they don’t get in … but then I sat back and thought, “Man, those fsckers are probably costing on bandwidth somehow.” and that’s where I draw the line.

So once again, Denyhosts is up and running, more than 60 hosts have been banned just today and more are going to get taken down. Now, if only I could come up with a good legal reason to just give my servers the capability to attack back … but that’s not legal … yet.

I’m really, really tired one of our ex-customers. I have allowed to this charade continue on long enough by allowing myself to be over-ruled in decisions on how to handle this situation we have gotten ourselves into. Basically, we have taken the approach that we can be successful in business by being appeasing people. While I’m not opposed to being nice to customers or people, I refuse to yield to threats or attempts to exploit work. That being said, this is the email I considered sending back to Paul, who has been attempting to steal services over the past two years from my team under the guise that he would “sue us for not signing another contract to work with him.”
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I know it’s probably mirrored else where and all over the net … but this is just so sweet:

Credits go to someone, I just don’t know who

Back by popular demand, it’s another round of evil ideas. For some reason, these posts tend to work better as a theme; so for this week our theme is “Baby Shower.” Thankfully, I’ve never been to a ‘real’ baby shower, but I’ve been told there are bunch of terrible games. A quick Google shows the following hits:

• Diaper pin game
• Ribbon Around the Pregnant Girl
• Guessing the Baby Food
• Cotton Ball Game

As you can tell, these games are above and beyond LAME; however, with my simple to use evil recipes, we can put the BAM! back in the party. So here’s a baby-shower … Evil Wyatt Style
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As Jimmey Kimmel said, time files when you are stopping other people from having fun. It’s been a while since I’ve done an evil ideas post, but don’t go thinking that I’ve gone soft … I’ve just been a little bit too busy to help out the less-than-evily-inclined. No my evil wanna-be’s, I have not discarded you, though it would be evil to do such, I just thought I would see how you could evil on your own for awhile. Being as I haven’t seen anyone do anything really impressive, my work is obviously not done. Oh yeah, and as always, fan submissions are welcome anytime … on with the evilness.
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OK, I admit it. The title was designed to stick that crappy Britney Spears song in your head (hey, I’ve got to get my work in too you know). But even though you’re sitting there with a horrible melody accented by bad singing and terrible lyrics, it is time for some more evil ideas. But before I go into that, I would like to thank Joe, Rick, and Mike for their thoughts and variations. If you haven’t read them, their pretty good and you’ll find them here. Moving right along, here are some more evil ideas with the usual disclaimer attached.
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In response to the statistics, I’m going to try and make sure there are plenty of evil ideas to go around for all; however, I think I’ll change things up just a touch. In the past, I’ve just put these ideas out here for all to read and have asked nothing in return … now that is going to change. I humbly ask that IF you read the following ideas that you please leave a comment if you have anything to say. By “anything to say,” I’m looking for productive comments. Not the “Oh this is so great ++digg” bull-crap, but suggestions on improving, varying, questions on specific ideas, or issues with implementations. The reasoning behind all of this is the hope that I can provided a better service by having another perspective on my thoughts and ideas. I’m also going to encourage you to write to me asking for assistance with specific situations that require the finesse of an evil twist (details within). And the last thing before we get into it … I am not responsible for anything you do or think about before/during/after reading this. That’s called a choice … and if you make the choice, then your responsible. Enough with the verbiage, let get on with the good stuff!
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I was driving down the road the other day and it occurred to me that there are a lot of stupid fricken people in the world. Yes, yes … I know this is a thought that I have more than eighty times a day and I don’t need reminded of it. But what it did remind me of is how I have slacking off not providing my entourage with ideas to help spread out the evil and level the playing field of the world. So for those who feel slightly challenged on the evil side, this post is for you.
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It has been a little while since I’ve posted some good evil ideas for you conniving little extortionists and I think you are about due. Why do I do this you ask? Well, two reasons. One, I think that the evil needs to be distributed to the masses to prevent one sect from getting too much evil dealt to them or dealing out too much evil unduly. Two, I know how hard it is for people who aren’t naturally evil to come up with good, cheap, effective evil ideas. As a public service, I present to you my most recent evil ideas. If you have anything that you think would be a good evil idea, feel free to submit it to one of my many email addresses and I’ll give you all the credit and it will be immortalized for awhile on my site (traffic is increasing oddly enough). Oh yeah, I’m not responsible, you’re an idiot and blah blah blah.
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Ah, once again, Scott Adams saves what I could chalk up to another horrible day at work. Today, Scott’s post is about his bad thoughts that he’s had. Having worked at a place that I absolutely hate for 3 weeks, I can easily relate. So I present to you, my devilishly tasty evil thoughts of the week.
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