04-03-2015, 09:56 PM
(03-03-2015, 06:17 AM)neo_ Wrote: It has nothing with being paranoid. It has everything to do with the ISPs System Engineer catching irregularities & upping the security. With you being the direct causation to ruin everyone's fun.
I have been this person at least 3 times, it's no fun. Don't be this person.
Nostalgia time. Some no-name ISP back 12+ years ago, back when we just abused firmware bugs (like tftp looking at the ethernet before the coax on a 4100). They offered 512kbit/128kbit, I played cautiously for several months, then being dumb and reckless I served up a 0/0 config and ran 10mbit up/down near-24/7 for a couple of months, all on my sub. They rolled out firmware updates almost immediately, I went back and forth with security and downgrading, a week later they'd push a firmware that fixed whatever bug I abused. I can't believe they never contacted me or pressed charges or something. I realized that I was personally causing a storm, and made my stealth much better.
A few years later, I got brazen again, and random engineer was very interested in me specifically. Abusing unsubbed modems and forced configs was the in thing, and some engineer narrowed it down to my node abusing it enough to stand out. They set my node and my node only to boot every unsubbed modem every 12 hours, and when that wasn't enough of a deterrent, every 10 minutes. Of my various tester friends around town, none of their nodes did the same.
It just takes one bored engineer to spot something and set out to fix it. However hard it is for you to test now, they can definitely make it much, MUCH harder.