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Currently, I use a screen-shotted contact screen as my wallpaper for my ICE contact - just in case the worst were to happen. This will let me put more information, and might even let me have a wallpaper again!
In addition, there are quite a few good visualization tools to show the logs made by kippo. You can save them to a db, plot them nicely, etc.
Check it out here: https://github.com/micheloosterhof/kippo
In addition, it limits available commands to a certain predefined subset, allowing the host to prevent damage caused (e.g. a DoS attack in this case) by the system being compromised.
> As Emacs and Vim have demonstrated over the past three decades, if you want to build a thriving, long-lasting community around a text editor, it has to be open source.
I agree whole-heartedly. In fact, I don't believe that editors like Sublime Text would have such a large following if not for the extended "free-trial" functionality.
It will be exciting to see where this project goes, and I think open-sourcing the rest of the editor was a great move.
One of the members of the full disclosure mailing list outed these guys here: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/292
Only this time - they got smart:
> Please note that we are busy and we will NOT answer to questions, social engineering tentatives or dumb comments.
AKA
> Please note that we will not in any way prove this is legit (not falling for that again!)
This is actually very common. Twitter recently took down a large number of bots and published a paper about their classification. One of the attributes of a Twitter bot account is it's reputation. By remaining idle, it can establish a reputation within Twitter's spam detection system, becoming more valuable when sold.
Edit: HUZZAH! After Googling like crazy, I found the paper: http://www.imchris.org/research/thomas_sec13.pdf
Thanks for the help, though!