On 20180721 07:13, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 07:04:52PM -0700, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 05:37:34PM -0700, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>>> Here is my recipe for doing what you are doing:
>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__daqshare.triumf.ca_-7Eolchansk_linux_CentOS7_AAA-2DREADME-2DUSBBOOT.txt&d=DwIBAg&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=fk0JY3BhmGxCfN3pBlvgoU0w4oeNX-YtFJkujmomPYY&s=O0aGOYpKPfw848g7KU-jZW8EGsRnZL7EQomfx6fHYXo&e=
>> WTF, urldefence, really?!?
> 
> On second thoughts, never mind. It's just the Departement of Privacy (the new
> sibling of Dept of Love and Dept of Peace) going about their business.
> 
> Same as after using the sslabs https test tool I see my newly setup web server
> getting probed by everybody and their dog; now posting a URL to a public mailing list
> attracts the same kind of attention.
> 
> (maybe it's not "urldefence" leaking the data to 3rd parties, maybe it's the mailing
> list "archive service" or they just scrape the mailing list archives directly).
> 
> I hope this is not wildly off-topic, but I am certainly surprised and I will be more
> careful about what I post to this mailing list. "The walls have ears", as they say,
> but these specific ears seem to have hands, as well.
> 
> Here is the hits on my AAA-README file from the web server logs. No hits before my message
> to the mailing list. Afterwards, at at least some of the repeated GETs from repeated IP addresses
> look like robots. And too many hits altogether. I wish everybody would
> read my README file and become enlightened, but I think not.
> 
> K.O.
> 
> 
> [root@daqshare httpd]# grep AAA ssl_access_log | sort
> 108.233.44.194 - - [20/Jul/2018:19:08:25 -0700] "GET /~olchansk/linux/CentOS7/AAA-README-USBBOOT.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 2102
> 130.180.57.94 - - [21/Jul/2018:04:46:51 -0700] "GET /~olchansk/linux/CentOS7/AAA-README-USBBOOT.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 2102

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