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Written by sjvn on 2025-01-23 at 16:28

If you cut the cable, I guarantee you won't need to worry about any attacker connecting to your network. Or anyone else, for that matter.

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Written by gnaddrig on 2025-01-23 at 16:36

@sjvn

It might cost you a bit of bandwidth, though.

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Written by Christian Wolff on 2025-01-23 at 16:49

@sjvn

You know what a lag switch is?

It's a mechanical device that's used to cheat in online games by temporarily disconnecting either the green wire or the orange wire (in a CAT5 cable). Typically you would do this and then move (in the game) to wherever you want to be, and then reconnect it. This causes no interruption in inbound packets, but delays outbound packets, causing your position to update instantaneously. I could be wrong, but I THINK it also results in all of the outbound packets that were delayed, finally being sent but catching up way too fast, and therefore using way more bandwith than they would normally. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong about any of that.

Anyway, I've always thought it would be fun to set up a lag switch in between the modem and the router, just in case I get "lucky" and someone decides to DDoS me. Imagine? All of their requests reach my router, but for some reason, my router never responds UNTIL FOR SOME REASON IT DOES. It might still be unusable on my end but it would be anyway, and there's simply no way they're gonna be expecting that, and I get bored easily.

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Written by seism0saurus on 2025-01-23 at 17:00

@sjvn

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A picture of a grey ethernet cable. A part with text on it is marked with a red box. On that part of the cable is the text "cut here to activate firewall".

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Written by BeeCycling on 2025-01-23 at 18:06

@sjvn Reminds me of the time my brother's cat decided to airgap his router from the internet. (I mean it ate through the cable.)

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