Hacking Back #IRL

Eradicating an Intruder from a Network

Dave Dittrich
36 min readJul 31, 2019
Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash

“Hacking back” doesn’t always mean going outside your own network. In fact, it is best done quietly, inside your own network where you have home field advantage, and both slowly and deliberately so as to deliver a definitive enough blow to someone’s activities that they leave your network and don’t come back. This is a story of how I did it, and how you can, too.

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Dave Dittrich

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