I mean, they haven’t had that much trouble. Last I checked they had portions of the French and German governments using Matrix as a secure messenger. (To be fair, those both came after the rename.)
Nah, it works because our understanding of human psychology is real, and lots of people are susceptible to the messaging of advertising.
Propaganda (what advertising is at its core) still works under communism, it doesn’t suddenly stop working because capitalism no longer exists. If that was true, images like the one below wouldn’t have needed to exist to help promote the communist message. (Propaganda isn’t always inherently evil, sometimes it’s purpose is to help spread a political message that can be positive.)
I agree, marketing serves no fundamental purpose for society, because it’s essentially just lies to sell a product or service. However I vehemently disagree it only works because of capitalism.
The difference is a random IP is a random IP. You don’t know who it’s connected to. Once someone says “This is my IP” you now have it connected to a specific person, and other specific people may want to fuck with the original person.
Bots already scan all open IP addresses for vulnerabilities, but hackers live for people who give up information for free because fucking with someone who thinks they’re safe from it all is fun to them apparently.
So just put your phone number on the front page of Lemmy. Or are you practicing security through obscurity by not releasing it? /s
It’s not security through obscurity to not divulge information that need not be divulged. It’s not obscure if there’s lots of ways to find an IP. Like I said, it’s like putting a phone number out there. Like that one guy from 10 years ago who posted his phone number online and immediately regretted it because his phone just wouldn’t stop ringing. He wasn’t “afraid” until it totally fucked up his ability to use his phone. I’m just trying to be helpful. If you really want to put yourself on blast, go for it man.
It’s like putting your phone number on the wall of a bathroom stall. Maybe you won’t get a lot of prank calls, maybe you will. It’s a crapshoot.
The thing is, posting your public IP is like asking for a number of hackers to start probing your network for lapses in security. Not because you’re a juicy target, but simply because you put the information out there. That’s been bog standard for the internet for 20 years now.
Sure, IP addresses can be found through various ways, but having them out for everybody to see is just asking for more trouble than it is worth. You’re making yourself a target and creating more work for yourself if you’re constantly getting hacked because of it.
Like I don’t even want to do anything malicious and I immediately started up a traceroute.
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I’ll admit, the reason I ended up reading the whole article were the words “Ben Schwartz.”