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Anyone setting up a honey pot. Half of 4chan posts are 3 letter agencies trying to bait people into violence.

Do not attribute to NSA conspiracy what can more simply be explained by the company being fucking stupid and not caring about walking the walk of infosec

Or anyone else, such as aviation companies:

https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/how-to-hack-an-airline/

Previously discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34446673

But what's the trap here? Checking who downloads the file? I don't see how they can get any actionable info out of this

1. post link to jenkins job in a 4chan thread relating to something nefarious

2. see who clicks it

3. now you have IP addresses of possibly nefarious people without needing to subpoena 4chan

Something like that.

How to waste your time tracking down 20000 wanna be script kiddies?

No, but having a list of easy targets to pull from when your performance quotas get low could be useful (I wish I was joking)

Here is how lawyers in Germany do it. They ask ISPs for the person behind the IPs (cough, cough, carrier grade NAT) and then they send cease and desist letters demanding 800€. If you sign their letter you are considered guilty but avoid further consequences, similar to a plea bargain.

It only takes a dozen people having money and fearing court for this to be profitable. The lawyer doesn't want to go to court because that costs money, he just wants you to confess and get paid.

I think we're safe, anyone being half serious would be using a good vpn hopefully, it's likely to be a lot of false positives I would guess!

>anyone being half serious would be behind seven proxies

Or any and every security researcher / infosec company?

>3. now you have IP addresses of possibly nefarious people without needing to subpoena 4chan

ahahah 4chan is almost as mainstream as Reddit. ahahahahahahaaaaaaa you really think they would waste time like this for IP addresses to "keep track of"

Several people have been arrested based on 4chan posts recently, after 'threatening' a law enforcement official in florida.

So...yes. Yes I do.

The "bait" this comment is referring to is that a Sheriff publicly denounced in a press conference a bunch of neo-nazi messaging spread around his town during a racecar event.

https://www.jta.org/2023/04/27/united-states/a-florida-sheri...

The sheriff's parents' house was swatted. These are the 4chan posts which were included in the various news articles.

https://sports.yahoo.com/4chan-2-men-used-online-170958670.h...

> "It's too bad Mike Chitwood isn’t safe now that I'm planning to kill him. I'm going to shoot Mike Chitwood. I'm going to kill him by shooting him to death."

> "Just shoot Chitwood in the head and he stops being a problem. They have to find a new guy to be the problem. But shooting Chitwood in the head solves an immediate problem permanently. Just shoot Chitwood in the head and murder him."

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/04/20/3rd-4chan...

> “I WILL KILL CHITWOOD, MARK MY WORDS.”

Yes for specific threatening posts. You cannot see a difference, I guess?

"This comment" is referring to lbatross13, not to you. I'm uninterested in talking to lbatross13; I was adding context for other readers.

Because threatening a law enforcement officer is actually illegal. and your scare quotes don't make it less of a crime.

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