Code Red growth stats

Larry Sheldon lsheldon at creighton.edu
Thu Aug 2 12:25:47 UTC 2001


I did a poor job of formating this message.

Somebody else said this (Idon't remember who at the moment):

> Indeed. I've seen 1215 probes since the start of August, and a rough glance 
> shows something like 30% or more are dialups, cable modems and DSL lines. 
> Better than 50% appear to be addresses without INADDR.

I said this:

> Here too I think a sociologist might be useful (by the way I am not a
> sociologist, I disagree with some sociology, but I have lunch with
> one or more nearly every week).
> 
> What is likely to be the population characteristic most common among
> xDSL connected folk?
> 
> I think it is small [home|business|shop] relatively unsophisticated,
> poorly staffed and more likely to have all the bells and whistles on.
> 
> And maybe the most frequently occuring thing in the population.

I am sorry to have stolen somebody else's words--I did not mean to do that.




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