Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years

Fri Oct 12 14:02:30 UTC 2007

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Leigh Porter wrote:

> You are more likely to get 5000 zonealarm emails....

Got tons of those...
...and BlackIce, DShield, Norton, SamSpade, and all the rest :)

But there were also lots of people who took time out of their busy day to 
personally write their own flaming emails, rather than just relying on the 
boilerplate reports many of the packages above commonly send out.  I felt 
honored :)

jms

> Justin M. Streiner wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Chris Owen wrote:
>>
>>> You can't consider every wacko on the net when doing something like
>>> this. Anyone who considers a ping an attack probably isn't worth
>>> worrying about.
>>
>> I tend to agree, but back when I manned the abuse desk (among others)
>> at my former employer, I would see abuse reports come in all the time
>> that were basically a report from whatever security software someone
>> was running on their PC, accompanied by a message that was usually
>> something along the lines of this:
>>
>> "HOST x.x.x.x ON YOUR NETWORK PINGED ME!!!!  I TAKE MY SECURITY
>> SERIOUSLY!!  I'M CALLING THE FBI!!!"
>>
>> The knee-jerk reaction is rarely the right one :)
>>
>> jms
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