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Fuck Hilton: Black Hat USA 2024, DEF CON 32 attendees treated like children – or criminals – with invasive hotel room checks (cybernews.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by jjlinux@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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This is absolutely ridiculous. Imagine some fuckers just coming into your room while you're with your SO making love or something.

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[–] nichtburningturtle 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They had 127.0.0.1. That's my IP!!!!

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago

What are you talking about, that's mine scumbag!

Reminds me of the bash.org Napster entry. For posterity:

#104052 + (14264) - [X]
<NES> lol
<NES> I download something from Napster
<NES> And the same guy I downloaded it from starts downloading it from me when I'm done
<NES> I message him and say "What are you doing? I just got that from you"
<NES> "getting my song back fucker"

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mine is 127.43.3.59

[–] nichtburningturtle 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

TIL you can set a custom one

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Well no

127.0.0.1/8 points back to localhost

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 0 points 2 months ago

Even better. If you are programming all networking H/W yourself, you can even ignore address conventions and reserved addresses.