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Nice read! Thanks for the suggestion. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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 Be careful, if a few of us did something like that it could potentially bring down the Internet ...
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Get copies of some nasty viruses, name them something enticing, and let them have at it!
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kmoorevs wrote: What useful content might you leave for a theif hacker?
Back in college, a friend of mine was playing around with the compression code and figured out how to create very small files that could not be successfully uncompressed -- they required more space than the size of a disk. He used to leave them in his account as honeypots for unsuspecting budding college hackers. Make such a file and give it a name like it came from TurboTax and you'll catch them 
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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I remember one called 42.zip
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Thanks for all the suggestions! I decided to take the high road by leaving an old fashioned ReadMe.txt.
'Hacking is illegal. There is nothing to see here so move along. Repeated visits to this account will be reported for abuse. Have a nice day Administrator.'
The Administrator account with password 'admin' has been set for read only and removed from all Windows User Groups. Also all settings for remote desktop have been disabled. Internal testing works as expected...no drag-drop, pasting, or creating content is allowed. It seems secure...I hope I haven't missed something. It would be pretty stupid if the gag backfired. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Doing it on your production box is folly. Do it on a distinct box with a firewall between it and your real servers. Not all hacks rely on improperly set up boxes, some exploit bugs.. I guarantee you Windows didn't give you settings for closing all the bugs they didn't know about.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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I would put a big zip file (1GB or more) named CustomersDatabaseBackup, inside I would put a program named Restore that blocks input on their computers and displays a nice CIA or FBI logo with "You're being traced" written on big red letters. 
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The downside is that my server resources and bandwidth suffers. The more I think about it, the more I think (at least now) I may have hit upon a pretty good solution. They (I am assuming 'they' are bots and not real people) should be getting through pretty quickly, and find a single text file. They retrieve this file, and they disconnect finding nothing of interest. Anyway, the trap is set and I shall be watching the activity log to see if it works. I actually expect that once they 'break in' they may want to store some payload. The account is read-only so it shouldn't be possible.
I'm probably going to try out Ubuntu under a VM just as an FTP server. If it works, I'll just move those services over to it and at least solve the problem for the types of attacks I am getting with fail2ban.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I apologize if this seems like a programming question, but I could not find an appropriate forum - so let's just call it a technical discussion. 
Anyway, I'm trying to find a SDK to incorporate into a C# Windows Forms commercial software product that allows for converting PDF files to RTF. It can be anything from freeware/open-source to licensed software as long as it doesn't cost more than $3K per year, and nothing with royalties attached to it. And not BCL Technologies' EasyConverter as that is what I'm replacing.
Of course, there are several products out there, so I'm just looking for suggestions and recommendations at this point. For instance, does anyone have experience with any of the products listed here: http://softwaresolution.informer.com/PDF-to-RTF-Converter/[^]
Thanks
-NP
Never underestimate the creativity of the end-user.
modified 9-Apr-14 14:19pm.
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If in doubt, there is always here: http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/ask.aspx[^]
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I suppose it depends what tech stack you are currently using. If you're using Java on Linux then it's not much good us giving you details of a C# version.
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Good point. I modified my original question. It is a C# Windows Forms application. Thanks again.
-NP
Never underestimate the creativity of the end-user.
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You might find this one[^] to be of some use. It looks easy enough to use.
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Excellent find! I'll definitely add that to my list to investigate. Thanks!
-NP
Never underestimate the creativity of the end-user.
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not a build in product like you were asking for but....
Word 2013 will open a PDF file and can save it as an RTF file, it can be automated
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Noah film screening cancelled due to flooding[^]
Nothing.
To.
Say.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Quote: Luckily, the flooding in Exeter wasn't of a biblical scale.
What a relief!!!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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It was just a warning... Citizens of Exeter! REPENT! Or prepare meet your dooooooooom!
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: Or prepare meet your thy dooooooooom!
If you're gonna be a doom-monger, you gotta use the language!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Gettin' all King James on me are ye?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Does "wasn't of a biblical scale" mean "wasn't made up"?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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