Black Hat Exploits of the Stupid-Easy 80s

Re:Black Hat Exploits of the Stupid-Easy 80s by aarchi on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @10:03PM (#27695604)

I've wanted to do this prank ever since I saw it on XKCD, but I think it's largely obsolete now, with the widespread use of HTTPS.

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Re:Black Hat Exploits of the Stupid-Easy 80s by justshowpost on Thursday July 01, 2021 @05:36PM (#27705178)

> with the widespread use of HTTPS Likely it stopped working much earlier, since HTTP 1.1 which requires Host header, so the requests would be served by whatever "default" website shared with kittenwar.

Needles to say what described honeypot (or more like funnypot) is too easy to pwn due MAC-based authentication

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