[buddylw]

When I was in highschool in the late 90’s, I was really into exploring networks and systems I wasn’t supposed to be in, but it was always about learning technology for me. I found this tool to be extremely creepy.

I discovered that my local ISP had the finger port open on their dialup gateway. Since usernames were first letter + last name I could look up any ip addresses I found in my local firewall logs basically by name.

I saw someone trying to connect to this port and knew exactly who was scanning for this and eventually found a honeypot listener that would allow attackers to connect, but let you control the data sent back. I can’t remember exactly what I sent, but I called out the attacker by name when he connected to my machine and he never scanned me again