He doesn’t wanna get hAcKeD duhhhhh
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grayman@lemmy.world 5 months agoWhy did you black out your private IP addresses?
ji17br@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 5 months ago
They are called private for a reason!
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Old habits. Just as a general rule, I black out most IPs; I used to deal with a lot of horribly insecure devices at work, with default passwords that couldn’t be changed and no port security.
So anyone on the network could fuck things up if they were on the wrong wifi and tried to reconfigure something they shouldn’t be touching. It was only an issue a few times, since the vast majority of people using said network were other techs who knew what they were doing. But there were a few times that someone screenshotted something, it got passed around, and someone who didn’t know what they were doing for curious and went digging when they saw the IPs.
It was never anything catastrophic since the network wasn’t even connected to the internet, and we had backups of any important settings. But it was just a practice that we all eventually picked up, to prevent random employees from sniffing around. Because it always sucked to come into work the next morning, and discover that a particular piece of gear wasn’t working properly because someone decided to tick a stray checkbox or change a polling rate.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I, for one, appreciate that someone called @PM_Your_Nudes_Please understands the value of good OPSEC.