Offtopic: Script kiddies

Sunday, December 16 2007 @ 06:40 CET

Contributed by: Dirk

Script kiddies are stupid - or they wouldn't be script kiddies. Okay. But even the most dense script kiddie, in control of a few hundred bots, should eventually realize that the web doesn't work like real-life objects. Or so you would think.

Let's see:

"GET /forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=http://laudanskisucksss.chat.ru/placeholder/image? HTTP/1.1"

Sorry, no dice. Our forum software only accepts a numerical value there, no URLs.

But what does our script kiddie and his botnet do? They try another 7000 times, with the exact same request. As if, like a real-life object, it would eventually break and give in if you only keep hammering at it long enough.

Inclusion attempts like the above are making up more than 30% of all the requests we get on geeklog.net these days. Not a single one of them has ever succeeded in doing anything. They are just one big waste of CPU cycles and bandwidth.

Someone please beat some sense into those idiots.

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