On: Some idiot is using your tool to mass scan our net...

[st_goliath]

See also:

People finding the curl copyright notice in an application and blaming Daniel Stenberg for hacking them:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/01/19/subject-urgent-warnin...

Or the reason sqlite no longer uses "sqlite" as a file extension for temporary files:

https://github.com/endlesssoftware/sqlite3/blob/master/os.h#...

[andai → st_goliath]

Found this gem in the comments of the first one:

A city in Oklahoma threatened to call the FBI over an Apache error message... and sent the threat to CentOS.

https://www.theregister.com/2006/03/24/tuttle_centos/

[mike_d → andai]

The best part is the cities tuttle-ok.gov website has not come back online since 2006. They just gave up and built another website at cityoftuttle.com

[encom → andai]

I don't understand why CentOS, and Stenberg above, spend any energy engaging with these people.

[andai → st_goliath]

> How about simply renaming curl to zurl so that you end up at the very bottom of the list and hand over the case to the next dependency in alphabetical order?

[3np → st_goliath]

> Also, Spotify is a major partner of Spotify

Can't argue with that

[bballer → st_goliath]

This is great, thanks for posting.

[danmur → st_goliath]

Ha ha ha, surely not, it's too hilarious. Must be a top tier troll :)

[ec109685 → st_goliath]

They no longer use that as a file prefix, rather.