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What the He** is this!
Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 10:26 pm
by mustbjones
Re: What the He** is this!
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 1:18 am
by dhouwn
Ma1's heuristic spam-protection attempt prevents people with suspicious user agents from external posting links.
Re: What the He** is this!
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 12:29 pm
by therube
Nothing suspicious here:
Mozilla/5.0 (000000000; 0; 00000 000 00 0 0000; 00000; 0000000000) DDDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDD
Heh. And without looking, I bet my own is going to be strange too:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100821 AMAZON FIX YOUR UA NOT Firefox/3.0 SeaMonkey/2.1b1pre
Yep.
Re: What the He** is this!
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:49 pm
by mustbjones
Is this better for a user agent? I use NetBarrier to block all information on my computer.
This really, really scared me. I thought I had become a victim of the DNS pre-binding attack.
What or who is "Ma1?"
Re: What the He** is this!
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 8:31 pm
by Alan Baxter
Re: What the He** is this!
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 9:13 pm
by Guest
mustbjones wrote:Is this better for a user agent? I use NetBarrier to block all information on my computer.
If you're concerned about your privacy, blanking or modifying your user-agent, counter-intuitively, is a bad idea; apart from websites breaking or becoming suspicious of you (like Ma1's blog here), it makes it easier to
fingerprint you across the web. UA strings like that aren't exactly common, at least I've never encountered it.
Re: What the He** is this!
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 9:18 pm
by Guest
Also, telling the bad guys exactly what security software and operating system you're using is never a good idea either.
Re: What the He** is this!
Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 5:55 pm
by mustbjones
Sorry, I just found out about the "fingerprinting issue". Also, I didn't mean to give away any security information.
