[Dxspider-support] Further analysis of fake spots

[Mikel EA2CW]

Dear Rene,
I think it is no so complicated. Just connect to any CCcluster server or 
to any (or several at the same time) dxspider with no registration 
required to send spots. Say its call is XX1AAA

If you want to, use a VPN or another way to cover your real IP
When the node ask you your call, say XX1ABC - In my case I would say 
OZ1LQH ;-)

Start sending fake spots. All the nodes connected to XX1AAA will start 
receiving and forwarding your fake spots.

The only solution here is to declare XX1AAA as badnode and XX1ABC as 
badspotter. Don't worry, just change the node and the call you use to 
log in. Start again. If you are to lazy, make some kind of script.

Well, enough said. There could be people here who don't need to know more.

I might sadly say that we are the worst enemy we have.

By the way, I am the owner of a small house there in the mountains. 
Stone walls. 2 keylocks in the steel front door,... but I don't care if 
I lose the keys, because I leave it open all the time. In case I could 
not use that door, I always can enter thru the backyard one, only a thin 
and weak piece of old wood. Or even by the windows! I forgot to say that 
the glasses were broken long time ago...

I only go there on summer, so much of the year is unguarded. But I've 
not gone there for 5 years now. Perhaps it could need some repair works 
at the roof, but perhaps some of the many people who use to come in have 
fixed it already! Don't worry!

I call that little house "The sysop cave".

73 de Mikel EA2CW


El 26/2/25 a las 18:33, Rene Olsen via Dxspider-support escribió:
> Hi.
> 
> Just a thought. and I have no way of testing it in a controlled environment.
> 
> What happens if this is done.
> 
> Someone installs DX-Spider (whatever version but probably an older one, that still supports
> PC92 etc.), and set some random node as spider neigbour. In this example lets say they use
> DO5BBS-2 as their own node call.
> 
> They simply do set/spider <nodecall> and create a connect script to that node.
> 
> Then they connect a node, and presents itself as DO5BBS-2. Now, what will the other node
> do? I am aware that the other node doesn't know DO5BBS-2 as a spider node, but I think that
> they may still start to talk PC92 eventhough they are not 100% initialized.
> 
> Now I make tones of false spots as a user on DO5BBS-2. Might they actually be sent on to
> the node I just tried to link to, and then passed on to the network?
> 
> I am not able to test this, but in the past I have seen random nodes just trying to connect to
> my node, and even though I have not done a set/spider for the node, some traffic does happen
> between us. I am just not sure how much.
> 
> I am aware that if the node I try to link to is running the most recent version, and has password
> enabled, then the above is not possible. But there are plenty of nodes that doesn't run the
> newest version (or even a recent version) and doesn't require password to login.
> 
> Just a thought. Probably a wild shot.
> 
> Vy 73 de Rene / OZ1LQH
> -- 
73 de Mikel Berrocal EA2CW-AE2CW
Bilbao, Basque Country
ea2cw at gautxori.com
https://www.ea2cw.eus