Kerckhoffs's principle — stated by Netherlands-born cryptographer Auguste Kerckhoffs in the 19th century — says: A cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge.
I'm a firewall and VPN engineer at my day job, as a hobby I track bots, scanners, and other suspicious network activity primarily focused attacks against email servers. 99% of these activities are just script kiddies running bots, spraying packets in hopes to catch a box. My alternative IP list (below) takes a complementary approach to most common blocklists out there on the 'net. These lists help to quieten the annoyance seen in noisy logs caused by scripties.
Cash me on IRC, /server irc.rizon.net /join #Canada
- cli ip:
curl ip.m0n.org - General Blacklist
- Stretchoid.com Bots
- Binaryedge Bots
- Onyphe Bots
- spameri@tiscali.it bots
- Toolz
- misc
