Quote from: philipma1957 on December 31, 2013, 07:03:59 PM

Quote from: runderwo on December 31, 2013, 06:49:55 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on December 31, 2013, 06:13:14 PM

what do you expect me to think?

That you should have some evidence beyond pure circumstance before slinging around legal threats?

Would you somehow have been better off if OP had been intimidated by legal liabilities into never discovering and posting this information?

P.S. If you don't want people "attacking" your gear through a public IP interface, simply configure it to not fulfill requests so promptly and politely. Is it that difficult?

first off I am not the op. i did not brute force 28 knc machines he did. now when he did the brute force on the 28 machines he did not tell us he had permission to do it. so stop defending him for doing something that is not legal.

did his brute force attack hurt this person?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=31163.msg4140767#msg4140767

maybe I do not know but time wise it matches. was he off line for 3 or 5 hours extra due to the password attack ? do not know. I ask you this. would you want someone coming to the front door of your home and testing your door knob to see if it opens easily ?

so to the op did you have permission to attack the 28 machines? yes or no? my apologies if you informed those miners. before you attacked them

Wait... the OP is kind enough to inform us of a possible exploit and you're nailing him for it???
I rather this type of information is made public than kept under wraps and have "hackers" exploit it.

Besides, if you have a machine directly connected to the internet, you should sort of expect something like this to happen.

I mean if someone had remote access to your machine, locking you out should be the least of your concerns (since you would know something was wrong).
Instead, they could have reflashed your machine with a custom rom who's gui looks exactly like the standard knc one, but is set to mine for them on a part time basis (but also keep your settings as well).
Then you're paying resources to mine for them, all the while thinking your miner was defective/had stale shares. Not knowing its compromised.

It's even worst if they had it randomly mine for them on one of the larger pools (that only requires an address) - say like 2am to 6am, 10am to 12pm, then 2pm to 4pm. While occasionally submitting shares to your pools so it doesn't time out and alert you.

Then again, if this was a troll post, good job.
You got me