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  • Hell of an opening on this blog post. Solid write up! Glad honeypots like this exist.
  • Could they be residential proxies or does that not work in SIP?

    P.S. this is one reason that "pay for email" doesn't work to stop spam.

  • This is quite the claim (and I'm not saying you are wrong from making it).

    I just would have expected some of these institutions to be better.

  • Shades of "KENNEDY SLAIN BY CIA, MAFIA, CASTRO, LBJ, TEAMSTERS, FREEMASONS": https://theonion.com/november-22-1963-1819587981/
  • Thanks for sharing your interesting research! Can you explain your honeypotting approach further? How are you "presenting" as a SIP relay? What other honeypots or protocols can you detect?

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