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Covert Channel: ASCII Art Over ICMP
An anonymous reader writes "Have you ever had a particularly lossy Cisco ping, which you were sure was trying to tell you something? I mean, really *tell* you something. Echoart allows you to return a simple ascii art image in response to a Cisco-style ping."
So, this is the way to respond to alien life forms, Contact style?
Generally seems like somebody is deperately trying to hang on to the BBS days.
Kinetic stupidity has a new brand leader: Allen Zadr.
Now we've got to set our firewall to block pings, too, to stop that damn goatse guy . . . . what will the trolls think of next?
d'you ever wonder what these people did before the Internet?
Since when has expression and customization been useless...er...ok I can see your point but it is still pretty damn cool.
Sir, there is a dragon outside with an armful of armor. He's inquiring if we offer free refills.
When 'hostname poop' isn't enough...
This means that, with the lamefilter installed, ICMP is now more advanced than Slashdot.
and this is the best we get?? All right I admit to being a little let down.
I don't want knowledge. I want certainty. - Law, David Bowie
nothing special =(
How long do you suppose it'll be before someone starts using this to send an ASCII-art goatse.cx guy in response to pings? It'd give script kiddies looking for backdoors something to think about, at least.
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.
It works on OS X. I'm so tempted to open up my wireless so people can get a big finger when they ping my machines while wardriving.
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
Behold the return of ASCII porn!
PingMUD. Anyone wanna help?
A good argument I can use so that damn security dude opens up ICMP on our firewalls.
The glass is half-full. With poison. And there are cracks in the glass. The dirty, dirty glass.
I used to browse Slashdot on minimum threshold, until I saw a goatse ASCII image... I'm afraid that such an image might make +5 for this story.
with a simple ascii response of a web page to my simple http style request.
Generally seems like somebody is deperately trying to hang on to the BBS days.
Well the site is loading as fast as the BBS days so that's somewhat nostalgic right there...
BBS? Before that, sit home and cry over their lonely existence?
This is all I see:
44 0 0 33333
44 00 0 33 33
44 4 0 00 3
44 4 00 00 3 33
444 44 0 0 3
44 0 0 3 33
4 00 00 3333
I guess it works!
I really hate signatures, but go to my website.
Back in the day, torch wielding mobs were all the rage.
Trolling is a art,
to get spammed! I can see it now, pings which draw out "11VIAGRA CH3AP~!", or "`L00kING 4 L0\/3???"
Goatse is celebrating his ass off......oh wait
Table-ized A.I.
Slashdot, why have you so poisoned my mind??
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
Well what would be really cool if everyone had a ANSI compatible terminal so when they ping the site it can give them an ansi pong game.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Screw ICMP, I want to see ASCII Art Over ICBM!
Switch back to Slashdot's D1 system.
Should be able to do something creative with 550 errors in sendmail, here. Can reject messages contain newlines?
How long until people claim to see the Virgin Mary or some other figure in pings?
Reason: Your post looks too much like ascii art.
Did the 'Art' that was put on the page look like crop circles to anyone else?
.sig?
<Tinfoil hat>The aliens have a new way of passing information to the chosen. I saw Mulder ping this site and got a map to the next landing coordiates. If you believe, you can see it.</Tinfoil hat>
Psst. Hey buddy, can I borrow a
If you fall off a building, go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will be like hey, free dummy