I accidentally logged phone calls to military bases

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dmd
I'm mostly amazed the author didn't land in jail, which is the normally the response to reporting this kind of thing to authorities.
toast0
> It never really took off though, and even back in its early days it saw barely any use. Over the years it just deteriorated further, and today it's basically completely dead.It's actually not completely dead... It's just (almost) completely non-public.You can subscribe to services to get number porting information where the interface is basically e164.arpa queries to a private nameserver over a VPN. I don't know the details, the cost was high enough that it didn't make sense for my employer to pursue it.
trilogic
R.I.P You remind me of Mitnick, this is incarnation cause you have the same style verbatim. Glad to know your breed is still active.
tosti
> The source IPs were mostly American.> So I had accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone numbers and timestamps for calls going to military bases.That's quite a jump to conclusion right there.
shorsher
The article mentions Ascension Island, a small island in the south atlantic. There's a really great spy novel that takes places there, Ascension by Oliver Harris.
joncrane
Now THIS is what hacking is all about. Very cool.
adolph
This is a great story. Almost wish the author had dug a little further in and discovered something like Clifford Stoll in The Cuckoo's Egg, but a nice writeup nontheless.Makes me wonder how many partly implemented but ignored protocols like this exist.