Yeah, just having a little fun in the role of a paranoid admin. My setup isn’t worth mentioning since it fits my threat model (i.e. nobody gives a shit about my network, just don’t be the low hanging fruit) but I’m interested in other replies. Hope you get some useful responses here.

Nice try, attacker trying to get me to do their reconnaissance work for them. I’m on to you.

Search around for “scambaiting”, there are people doing similar things ranging from tying up (figuratively, unfortunately) telephone scammers for hours with pointless conversations to more tech-based efforts. Kitboga on YouTube is a good place to start, he usually just sits on the phone with scammers and takes them through some wild scenarios but has some videos showing tests of an automated system that uses an LLM to interpret and respond.

Easy there, Chicken Little, the sky isn’t falling. That was just an acorn.

Gaming journalists can’t game, tech journalists can’t tech. Nothing but a skill issue like usual.

Buy hearing aids

Edit: Sorry, thought this was the Bing.