[185760] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Google Captcha on web searches
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Mock)
Wed Nov 11 12:23:13 2015
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From: Ian Mock <ianm@fairwaymc.com>
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:39:45 +0000
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We had an IP flagged where a new hire in our Marketing dept was doing some =
kind of SEO and was hammering Google's servers with API requests in the hun=
dreds per minute. Google flagged it as malicious, got the captcha for all u=
sers behind that IP. After we found and stopped him, it returned to normal =
after a few hours.=0A=0AIan Mock=0A=0A=0A__________________________________=
______=0AFrom: NANOG [nanog-bounces@nanog.org] on behalf of Mark Tinka [mar=
k.tinka@seacom.mu]=0ASent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 10:23 AM=0ATo: Chri=
stopher Morrow=0ACc: nanog list=0ASubject: Re: Google Captcha on web search=
es=0A=0AOn 11/Nov/15 18:15, Christopher Morrow wrote:=0A=0A> Yes, people al=
so jump out of perfectly good airplanes... we can't fix=0A> all the things =
:(=0A> my point really is you assume some risk when you do odd things with=
=0A> basic plumbing on the internet, if you don't actually know what you=0A=
> are doing you're going to get burned.=0A>=0A> Quoted from Wikipedia:=0A> =
"Dangers of Use[edit]=0A> The dangers of using an unknown IP as a Smart DNS=
are similar to any=0A> other rogue DNS server preforming DNS hijacking in =
that the user is=0A> not aware which parts of his traffic are redirect and =
intercepted."=0A=0ANo arguments from me there...=0A=0AMark.=0A=0A
