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user-inactivated  ·  2992 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 14, 2016

I still wanna know what the deal with besslov.tk is





user-inactivated  ·  2992 days ago  ·  link  ·  

In Russian, "besslov" would either mean an intentionally misspelled "with no words/quietly, silently" or "(a) devil of words".

byonic  ·  2992 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Looks like a free (& anonymous) domain that someone registered and pointed at hubski's server.

Both resolve to the same IP (162.243.169.82) so I don't think there's anything especially nefarious going on.

If I had to guess it's probably some form of SEO / marketing strategy / abuse - that's what's usually going on with fishy web things like this. Whoever's in charge of the domain is probably trying to build reputation using good content & traffic from Hubski. Eventually, they might try and swap their pointer from Hubski's server to one they own, using the reputation they built to climb search engine ranks and get more traffic.

Total shot in the dark, I'm never exactly sure what these people are up to.

Or maybe it's just someone screwing with us.

goobster  ·  2992 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hm. There is someone testing the internet right now... poking at all of the systems and seeing how quickly the systems respond to their actions. BoingBoing has a good 101 on it.

I'm not sure if this is related or not, but the probing is systematic, and it's best to respond to those kinds of things quickly. Make sure you aren't labeled as an "easy mark" by the hacker...