I used to live in a neighborhood with elderly power and phone infrastructure. The 120V, 60 Hz main power fluctuated during spring and summer. I bought an APC Back UPS 1500 uninterruptible power supply in early June, 2020 to get whatever server I was using back then through the inevitable series of short power losses.
Because of the simplicity of TFTP, and the difficulty I had using existing TFTP servers, I decided to write a honey pot TFTP server. This seemed like an easy, no consequences, way to try out my honey pot design principles.
The past occasionally shows up to bother us in the present.
I’ve run various honeypots for a long time. I ran a WordPress honeypot off and on from 2013 to 2018. I’ve run endlessh on my home server for years. Before that, I ran the cowrie ssh/telnet honey pot for a while.
Currently, this website runs a fake WordPress login that tells you that you’ve used the wrong password after a 5 second delay. Feel free to try it. This website’s contact page does nothing but wastes spammers time and effort.
Communications From Superior Galactic Communities
Prof. R.N. Bracewell
Nature, vol. 186, no. 4726, May 28, 1960, pp 670-671
Found this product at Dollar Tree.
Using a Command Language as a High-Level Programming Language
John R. Mashey
Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Software Engineering (October 13-15, 1976), pp. 169-176
Two fortunes from the local strip mall Chinese/Thai fusion joint, one with an extra half-a-fortune, from some time between mid-April and May 13, 2026.
While fiddling with my educational TFTP client code
I noticed an oddity.
Sometimes my client could talk to a TFTP server,
but not vice versa.
The TFTP server, when it condescended to acknowledge a connection,
logged a message like recvmsg(): connection refused.
I used a local TFTP server, running on my laptop,
to avoid these errors,
but the mystery of why the server returned
no TFTP ACKs or DATA packets remained.
The UNIX Command Language
K. Thompson
© K Thompson 1976
Said to have appeared in:
Structured Programming - Infotech State of the Art Report
Nicholson House, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England
Infotech International Ltd. (March 1975), pp. 375-384.
