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"Coordinated attack" might raise more than eyebrows with the legal departments of the companies you've called out.

>Over the next 27 hours, in four distinct waves, all of them tried to use my VoIP (SIP) server to place phone calls on my dime.

As you've clarified in your comment here the companies did not do this. Compromised machines on their networks, controlled by third parties did it.

The actual blog post clarifies this as well. But still in some sense these organizations share some level of responsibility if it is their machines, attacking from their ASN.

Did you use AI to write the blog post?

Wrote the blog post myself, and used AI to clear up typos and occasionally improve wording. I have a PhD in computer science, but I was initially planning to pursue journalism instead, so I like to think that I can write good :-).

No comments, but thank you for sharing and staying vigilant.

Thanks! Just trying to keep the world safe from marauding Teddy Bears.

A question: why are you writing this with an LLM? Can you not write with your own words, at least on HN?

As mentioned above, wrote the blog post myself and had AI proofread and edit. As for the honeypot itself, I'm a greybeard computer scientist, and I architected the system very deliberately myself, using AI as a coding accelerator. Earlier in my career, moving from Assembly to C, I certainly appreciated the convenience of a higher level language. Same from C to C++ to Java/Lisp/Python to LLM. It's always a march to higher level languages and letting the computer do more work.

From the rules:

> Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between humans.

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