Brian's Journal

Dear Mr. Hacker, Part II

176140.

That's the number of attempted connections Mr. Hacker's made since last April, as of this morning's logs. We're still rejecting every one of them. You think he'd take the hint.

Dear Mr. Hacker

This is an open letter to the hacker who's been trying to break into our FTP server for almost a year now.

Dear Mr. "Hacker",

Since last April, you have been trying to break into our FTP server. Like clockwork, every five or six minutes, there's a connection attempt from one of your IP addresses. And, like it has for months, our FTP server has denied your connection.

Now, if you were trying to guess passwords, and were doing it at a slow rate to hide from our intrusion detection software, I'd applaud your cleverness. But you're doing nothing. Absolutely nothing. What this amounts to is the World's Worst Denial of Service Attack.

Could you please go away? I don't really need thousands of "connection refused" entries in my log files. If I were you, I'd be embarassed at my own lack of hacking skillz and go back to pirating music or something.

Thanks,

Brian

New Journal

While I liked the tools and setup of LiveJournal, the site's slowness and move towards only providing the best service to people who have paid accounts made me think it was time to move on. Since I already had a domain of my own, and my webhost Cubesoft provides me with a nicely geeky shell account and tools to do things like create databases, I decided to move my journal to my own site. And thus, I'm now playing with Movable Type.

What do I plan to use this for? I dunno. How often will I update this? Probably about as often as my LiveJournal (every few months. :) ) But who knows, maybe the geek factor of this will make me use it more.