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Comment by peppermint_gum | Hacker News Reader

This is either a joke or a scam/honeypot designed to fool gullible westerners.

Kosovo definitely is a corrupt country, but it doesn't mean you don't have to keep your criminal activities on the low. If you attract the attention of the western agencies, they will absolutely go after you. This isn't Russia, they're west-aligned and they don't want to annoy their western partners too much.

Also, this site doesn't even seem to be hosted in Kosovo: https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/query?searchtext=192.71.1...

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Very similar to this were a handful of resellers of resellers in Amsterdam that would totally ignore abuse reports and allow hosting anything. They were half a block from The Hague and an Interpol office. They would get raided a few times a year. I am still unsure how they managed to run for a long time unless they were a honeypot looking for specific targets.

Wasn't this the cyberbunker? It sure sounds like them except for the location.

I don't know who was ultimately the upstream reseller or hosting provider. These were all dodgy fly-by-night resellers of resellers that were in the same place. Their CIDR blocks are still active and I still get bad traffic from them. Each CIDR block was swipped out to each reseller.

Any product/service directly and publicly marketed to criminals is a honeypot (or will soon be). There is no reason for a real business (legal or illegal) to prefer criminal customers in good faith as all they bring is problems.

There are many agencies around the globe that set these up and continue to operate after siezing them to catch the low hanging fruit criminals. Its a lot easier/cheaper to lure criminals expose themselves directly than it is to actually investigate/track/hunt them down. Its pretty much the quantity over quality approach.

Links tend to disappear. It's always good to include a summary of what this link shows. So I guess you are referring to the fact that Pronect Technology Ltd is located in Zagreb, Croatia?

> It is important to note, however, that while a location like Kosovo may provide added protection, it is not a guarantee against censorship or attacks. Hosting content that is controversial or politically sensitive always carries some level of risk, and it is important to carefully consider the potential consequences before hosting such content.

This smells like it was written by ChatGPT

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