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xmcp123today at 11:32 AM1 replyview on HN

Oh man this takes me back.

Once upon a time, all server logs were basically unusable because of the amount of IIS scanners out there. There was a directory traversal that was literally just url encoding “../“ that absolutely lit the internet on fire for many months.


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0x1d7today at 1:53 PM

Those traversal attempts are still very common, right next to the PHP/WordPress script kiddie attacks.