[amsat-bb] SatReporter Hacked once Again

[Jim Jerzycke]

Aw, c'mon guys, give him a break. He's doing what he has to so he can 
keep his website up.


What would any of you do in similar circumstances, just let it slide?


73, Jim  KQ6EA


On 09/07/2017 07:54 PM, Ted wrote:
> Uh.oh...black helicopters and tin foil hat alert !!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of
> vk4tec at tech-software.net
> Sent: Wednesday, September 6, 2017 1:10 PM
> To: AMSAT
> Cc: aprssig at tapr.org
> Subject: [amsat-bb] SatReporter Hacked once Again
>
> I have been accused of not supplying enough information
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> So here it is
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> I designed a SatReporting tool that encompases the ISS and NO-84
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> It draws information from the APRS-IS stream and presents it in a web form.
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> I added a function where people could manually add a satellite observation
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> This was exploited and I had to deal with the authorities and coped 65,000
> emails from a vindictive individual in California
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> I contacted his her ISP and they were dumb and clueless
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> The help exceed my monthly internet bill in the the process.
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> That stoped after I reported them and took away the manual reporting
> feature.
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> I then let the system back on line and once again the same vindictive
> indivual was hitting my web site with a denial of service attack every
> second.
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> I have had to report them again.
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> My ISP are pissed off at me when I have done nothing wrong
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> Some jelous individual obviously does not like any one else doing something
> smart
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> It is sad and I feel sorry for that individual
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> I have a had a rough life and I can can take the punches
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> I will persist in bringing new and smart solutions to problems where I see I
> can help
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> Here is the individual that is doing it
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> vk4tec at hpserver:/maint/scripts> nslookup 50.255.43.233
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> Server:         192.168.1.1
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> Address:        192.168.1.1#53
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> Non-authoritative answer:
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> 233.43.255.50.in-addr.arpa      name =
> 50-255-43-233-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net.
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> Authoritative answers can be found from:
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> vk4tec at hpserver:/maint/scripts>
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> I have migrated from a raspberry pi to a quad quad core processore machine
> with 64 GB of RAM running LINUX OpenSuse
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> I will not be shut down by some asshole who wants to make my life hell
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> I say go for it
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> I am smater than you think having been in volved in both telecommunications
> and aviation security incidents.
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> I have been given military clearance and are friends with federal police
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> You have been warned
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> Andrew
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