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Password Gropers Hit Peak Stupid, Take the Spamtrap Bait

Posted by Unknown on from the bad-strategy dept.

badger.foo (447981) writes Peter Hansteen reports that a new distributed and slow-moving password guessing effort is underway, much like the earlier reports, but this time with a twist: The users they are trying to access do not exist. Instead, they're taken from the bsdly.net spamtrap address list, where all listed email addresses are guaranteed to be invalid in their listed domains. There is a tiny chance that this is an elaborate prank or joke, but it's more likely that via excessive automation, the password gropers have finally hit Peak Stupid.

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  1. One script kiddie made a mistake by Nimey · · Score: 5, Funny

    so now they've all hit peak stupid.

    I'm not sure it's the script kiddies that have hit that or the submitter and editor.

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    1. Re:One script kiddie made a mistake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      so now they've all hit peak stupid.

      I'm not sure it's the script kiddies that have hit that or the submitter and editor.

      "Peak Stupid" will be the dupe story...

  2. Don't be silly by Kierthos · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's no such thing as 'Peak Stupid'. Every time someone gets to the top of the current peak, the fog clears and another mountain of stupid looms in front of them.

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    1. Re:Don't be silly by alex67500 · · Score: 5, Funny

      A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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    2. Re:Don't be silly by Thanshin · · Score: 4, Funny

      There's no such thing as 'Peak Stupid'. Every time someone gets to the top of the current peak, the fog clears and another mountain of stupid looms in front of them.

      A phenomenon well documented in the study "the unpeakability of stupid".

    3. Re:Don't be silly by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 3, Funny

      Now, that's not true. Some of them vote for the second most stupid politician.

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  3. Editors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    haven't finally peak stupid because they were already there.

    1. Re:Editors by Hsien-Ko · · Score: 4, Funny

      These moron editer's should better there English.

  4. Well by Spad · · Score: 4, Funny

    While reading this story I accidentally peak stupid.

    1. Re:Well by TapeCutter · · Score: 4, Funny

      Obviously now is the time to sell stupid.

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  5. Re:This guy might be overvaluing his files by camperdave · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's "peak stupid" here is the submitter not understanding how spamming works before posting on it.

    Isn't it even more stupid to assume that stupidity has a peak in the first place?

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