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by bigiain 4590 days ago
As another Digital Ocean user - I'll just say I'm happy to hear that other people running DDOS and/or dictionary attacks from the same IP pool I'm relying on get slapped down _hard_, and that excuses like "but I'm doing this for a Uni assignment!" don't give you a free run to be a bad actor in their (and "my") netblock.

Do you _really_ think you have a "right" to run a dictionary attack from someone else's network? _Seriously?_

Personally - from looking at my fail2ban logs, I wish Amazon - and even more usefully, large residential cable/adsl providers - would implement this sort of pro-active monitoring of user/customer behavior.
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shan199105 4590 days ago
I think you are misunderstood. The target for that dictionary attack is the UW virtual hosted machine!
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shan199105 4590 days ago
Sorry that I didn't read your post carefully. I did not know that I cannot run a dictionary attack from their network. I admit that I made the mistake. I do tell them that I was wrong and stop the script immediately after I receive the notice. It's just I do not think that I deserve a penalty with destroy my account and all my files.
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bigiain 4590 days ago
So what penalty do you think you deserve?

What penalty do the people attacking my clients' WordPress sites or SSH ports deserve? Would that penalty change if they mailed Digital Ocean saying "No, it's OK - me attacking that website is part of my Uni assignment!"? Who'd be responsible for checking that claim, and how much time would it take? And remind me again how much you'd spent with Digital Ocean?

You fucked up big time - deal with it and learn from it. There's clearly a whole bunch of things you didn't even think about before doing this (ad that you're still whining about and failing to accept responsibility for). Be glad it bit you on the ass for something as unimportant as a uni assignment - imagine how much worse this could be if instead of a few assignment files, you'd lost 6 months of your startup's code - because you hadn't bothered reading the TOS you agreed to and didn't bother keeping off-site copies of important files.

Sorry this is harsh - but seriously, think about this from anybody else but your perspective. You behaved like a jerk, then tried the "But I didn't know! Sorry, I'll stop now." justification. And you're _still_ whining that you're being treated unfairly.

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