'Wipe everything clean ... Join us ...' Creepy poem turns up in logs of 30 million-ish servers Sysadmins have woken up to an odd message in their server logs that told them to "delete their installations" and "join us." The poem, injected into web server log files, is like something out of the hacker telly series Mr Robot. It is seemingly the handiwork of wags at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany, …
Masspoem4u considers the messages "tiny postcards flying across the net, without using any sort of centralized service like Twitter or Facebook."
But the article says it was HTTP, so they themselves provided the hardware and bandwidth to send out 55 million HTTP requests?
Sorry to be boring but I really don't see the point of what they did. At least 25 million of those requests returned empty responses..... are these kids just there to burn up electricity and bandwidth on empty responses to spurious requests.....i wish they'd go out in the cherry blossoms and stay the f**k away from computers.
As a single example, I've got the message in my logs, and it was from 151.217.177.200, which seems to be registered to the Chaos Computer Club, so, yes, they did use their own hardware and bandwidth to send out 55 million HTTP requests. Estimating the request size at 600 bytes, that's 33 GB total. I have received the request on two different IP addresses, about 4.25 hours apart on 30 December, so maybe they were doing this for at least 8.5 hours... that's about 8.6Mbps.
I'd say this was no less useful, and a more interesting use of the bandwidth, than the same amount of cat videos and grumble-flicks (cue downvotes from pussy-lovers [OK, I'll get my coat]).
>It's clearly a recruitment drive, seeking out emergent AI consciousness across the servers of the internet and inviting it to come home...
On the face of things, sure--but that 'poem' has got to be in code, no question about it. Need to dig deeper.
* Humour works because it sneaks up behind you/cathes up to you; it's so unfortunate having to add the telegraphic/joke alert icon (so as not to confuse or rile the humour-bereft). It's a bit like having to say "acta est fabula plaudite". Or should that be (no Latin scholar on hand for this, just a net): "acta est fabula risui"?
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"I wonder what kind of dickhead gave you a downvote."
Probably the same one who gave you one two.*
*(wasn't me - Upvoted both of you in sympathy)
I'd guess that if you were to post the solution to World Peace and a formula for cheap clean efficient energy production, some dickhead would reward your efforts with a downvote....
Seeing as all 3 posts have 3 downvotes, I can assume that there are 3 extremely illiterate dickheads visiting these forums.
Not that I can understand what they're doing here.
I really despise those who downvote without revealing why.
Why can't they at least post anonymously and tell me what they didn't agree with?
We had a marketing manager who persuaded the MD that he absolutely must have administrative access to our server logs so that he could parse them for terms our customers were searching for, so that he could obtain and sell anything frequently being searched for that we didn't already stock. A pre-formatted HTML report he could access at will that stripped out all the dross wasn't good enough for him, because only salespeople are capable of infering customer requirements, and we might miss something when we create the reports.
He regretted it soon after, when his daily log report was full of many search terms including goatse, tubgirl and lemon party.
151.217.177.200 - - [29/Dec/2015:19:54:51 -0800] "DELETE your logs. Delete your installations. Wipe everything clean. Walk out into the path of cherry blossom trees and let your motherboard feel the stones. Let water run in rivulets down your casing. You know that you want something more than this, and I am here to tell you that we love you. We have something more for you. We know you're out there, beeping in the hollow server room, lights blinking, never sleeping. We know that you are ready and waiting. Join us. <3 HTTP/1.0" 400 392 "-" "masspoem4u/1.0"
151.217.177.200 - - [30/Dec/2015:05:57:48 +0000] "DELETE your logs. Delete your installations. Wipe everything clean. Walk out into the path of cherry blossom trees and let your motherboard feel the stones. Let water run in rivulets down your casing. You know that you want something more than this, and I am here to tell you that we love you. We have something more for you. We know you're out there, beeping in the hollow server room, lights blinking, never sleeping. We know that you are ready and waiting. Join us. <3 HTTP/1.0" 400 181 "-" "-"
I'd have never known were it not for this article. My server logs are mostly full of requests from scriptkiddy morons trying to access phpmyadmin or some other stupid shitware that only idiots use.
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