This is too funny

[pecunium]

A "hacker" threatened to destroy a guy's computer, all he needed was the IP addy.

The guy gave it to him.

127.0.0.1

Those who recognise the address can see where this is going.

Comments

[cynthia1960.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

Toto!

[libertango.livejournal.com]

Did the victim also suggest the "hacker" click his heels three times?

Re: Toto!

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

If you follow the link you can see what happened. Summation, he sent a format command, and it went to 127.0.0.1.

TK

[hoosier-red.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear -- I just startled the husband with my cackling. Some people simply shouldn't be allowed near a computer.

Re: Toto!

[glinda-w.livejournal.com]

*stifled laughter* (don't want to wake the neighbors up).

*splutter*splutter* It was funny as soon as you mentioned 127.0.0.1, but when you said "format command" I lost it.

*giggle*

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

*snerk* thats awesome.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

And now we've a new one for the macross too, "I has a frie wal".

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

That's even better than the usual. He sure was persistent.

[mayakda.livejournal.com]

I kind of feel bad for that kid's parents -- or whoever owns the computer. Hope he/she/it gets grounded forever.

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

I think this should be illustrated by a cat hiding behind a little wall built out of French fries.

[shekkara.livejournal.com]

Bwah ha ha! (I was a unix sys admin in a former life.) And that transcript... Thanks for making my day.

[wetdryvac.livejournal.com]

*grins*

That's one of my all-time favorite stories. Never gets old. Thanks for pointing me at it, even if I do now have to clean coffee of the cat.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I thoroughly enjoyed that.

[cjmr.livejournal.com]

Your cat isn't self-cleaning?

[wetdryvac.livejournal.com]

Techincally yes, however, hyping a three month cat on high test is on my list of, "Do not repeat." The last coffee-cat experience involved extracting said wee fluff from the chamber space in the ceiling.

Re: Toto!

[libertango.livejournal.com]

Yes, I got that part.

I was making a reference to a t-shirt that says, "There's no place like 127.0.0.1..."

Re: Toto!

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

D'oh. I even thought of that shirt as I was typing this.

Head/Brick, sometimes I can't tell the difference.

TK

[comanche.livejournal.com]

Funny stuff.

[zhaneel69.livejournal.com]

You know, I'm not a hacker and I know better. How is that anyone claiming computer knowledge gets taken in by that? I mean, seriously?

zhaneel

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

If this is true (call it 70 percent likely, the amount of stupid in the world seems, at times, to be without limit), my guess is he was/is a script kiddie.

No real awareness of the way the systems work, but a lot of little tricks. Sort of like having a spring-gun, but no knowledge of locks actual mechanisms.

So he never learned how networks are built. Until I had to learn some of that, I didn't know where "home" was.

On the flip side, I know people, and I wouldn't have trusted the guy to be telling me his IP. A quick Whois, or a simple command line "ping" would have told me something fishy was going on.

But hey, I know lots of people I could pull that sort of head-fake on.

TK

ROTFLMAO

[dragonet2.livejournal.com]

I've got 9-m-o kitty who's always on hyper. I do not want him on caffeine or anything else, thank you very much. He's passing 16 lbs. and greeted me Monday night as I got home by thundering down the stairs and leaping at me from the 5th step up... (he fell short, thank ghu)

[greenmother.livejournal.com]

I am catching up on my LJ reading.

Thanks very much for sharing that exquisite link! *snert*