On Thu, 11 Apr 2019, Marc Roos wrote:

Say for instance you have some one trying to constantly access an account

Has any of you made something creative like this:

• configure that account to allow to login with any password
• link that account to something like /dev/zero that generates infinite amount of messages (maybe send an archive of virusses?)
• transferring TB's of data to this harassing client.

I think it would be interesting to be able to do such a thing.

As would finding the person responsible and outing them in public -- both are fantasies that do not scale to practice.

It's a costly countermeasure, and do you really want to engage in an internet fistfight where your opponent has anonymity, access to compromised servers or botnet, and no scruples against launching a DDoS attacks against you?

Block them and move on.

Joseph Tam jtam.home@gmail.com