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MightBeFluffy@pawb.social 6 days agoNot on AWS and yes I know I can’t stop port scanning and bad traffic is a thing. Doesn’t stop me from filling out the form. I think to piss off you and the other commenters, I’ll write a script to auto fill out AWS abuse forms. Also script kiddy or bot, all the same to me, their hosting provider is getting a message from me
Good luck with that, I suppose. Botnets can have thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of infected hosts that will endlessly scan everything on the interwebs. Many of those infected hosts are behind NAT’s and your abuse form would be the equivalent of reporting an entire region for a single scan.
But hey! Change the world, amirite?
Meh. I know everyone is giving OP the piss, but I used to fret about this type of stuff long time ago. LOL That became a job. Then I learned a little more and realized I wasn’t being targeted specifically by some hooded specter in a dimly lit basement emphatically announcing ‘I’m in!’, but that these were bots. Sophisticated bots tho, I’ll give them that.
My general attitude is similar to yours. Let OP figure out that the reporting and blocking is basically just creating more noise that has to gets filtered out and bot supply is basically infinite.
“It’s a learning experience.”
Yeah with Amazon’s sheer size this has definitely been done before, curious what limits op is going to hit. My guess is they have a quota for submissions, and they’ll be banned from submitting tickets.
I’ll write a script to auto fill out AWS abuse forms Sounds like you are the script kiddie here
I mean go for it? They literally can’t do anything, you might as well complain that fire is hot though. It’s part of being in the Internet. They provide safety gloves, via VPCs and fireballs, but if you choose not to use them then… yeah I mean youre probably gonna get burned
This is some cartoon-villain type unhinged behavior.
Not on AWS and yes I know I can’t stop port scanning and bad traffic is a thing. Doesn’t stop me from filling out the form.
On occasion, if they end up in recidive, I’ll report them to AbuseIPdb. If I did it for all attempts, I’d be as busy as a squirrel in a nut factory, because the bots are thick out in the ether. Like every minute of the day they’re out there throwing rocks at the castle wall. I had to start logrotating because logs were getting so big it was difficult to review and audit. Every so once in a while, they’ll break out the trebuchet and lob something significant, but I’ve had no breaches to date.
My servers are single user only, so buttoning things down is a little less complicated for me.
i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
Port scanning isn’t abuse but automatically filing frivilous abuse reports is.