[Sheflug] Idea for dealing with script kiddies

[Tom Knight-Markiegi <tom [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I remember sme post talking about this before (but can't find them right
now) but I was wondering if there is a way to deal with script kiddies.
Anyone running a webserver is sure to have seen the attempted attacks in
their logs. I was wondering if this would work. If you get the names of the
files that are being looked for and symlink them to something like
/dev/urandom so when the script kiddies try to get the files they just get
an infinate stream of garbage. I'm thinking that if enough people did this
they would soon get annoyed and stop attempting to hack you. Is this
sensible or would it just be a massive strain on your sytem/bandwitdh? and
would it actually work?

What do people think?

Tom



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