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

Fri Oct 12 17:00:23 UTC 2007

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Leigh Porter wrote:
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> You are more likely to get 5000 zonealarm emails....

Or a place on dshield's top 10.

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> Justin M. Streiner wrote:
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>> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Chris Owen wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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:
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>> "HOST x.x.x.x ON YOUR NETWORK PINGED ME!!!!  I TAKE MY SECURITY
>> SERIOUSLY!!  I'M CALLING THE FBI!!!"
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>> The knee-jerk reaction is rarely the right one :)
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>> jms
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