Josh Wieder

Wouldn't be interesting to know what percentage of total global TCP/IP traffic is being produced by human users and consumers, and what percentage is being used for spam, spiders, bots and all of the other automated software that clogs the airways? I don't care about throughput or bandwidth as much as I do the number of connections. Looking at throughput I would think that humans use way more than bots do - humans stream, send monstrous attachments on their emails, and decades later still have yet to achieve global competency in the dark, mysterious art of file compression. Bots fake clicks and hits and unique visits. I wonder how the human to bot ratio has changed over time as more and more people are able to afford and become interested in adopting the use of TCP/IP. Are there more people to bots? More bots to people? Are the bots growing faster than people? With these questions I won't even hazard an a priori, but it seems like a great experiment. What do you think? Do

This IP camera with microphone , the Safety Vision SVC2200, is being installed on buses in San Francisco, California; Eugene, Oregon; Traverse City, Michigan; Columbus, Ohio; Baltimore Maryland; Hartford, Connecticut; and Athens, Georgia. The microphones are sensitive enough to record conversations audibly. This leads one to wonder what such technology could possibly be used for. Cameras can be used for evidence in cases of violent crime. Recordings are not nearly as important in establishing proof of violence as they are in assisting with more subversive forms of surveillance. No doubt this information is headed in a roundabout way to your local DHS "Fusion Center", where it will be shuffled, cataloged and shuffled again. The IP cameras are listed as supporting the following protocols: IPv4/v6, TCP/IP, UDP, RTP, RTSP, HTTP, HTTPS, ICMP, FTP, SMTP, DHCP, PPPoE, UPnP, IGMP, SNMP, QoS & ONVIF, although one wonders in what capacity they 'support' QoS ... a few of t

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Someone is creating forum posts with content from this website and links back to this website. Embedded in the forum post is a download to an executable called ares.exe, designed to look like a P2P client installer that is actually part of the Agobot family of worms (aka gaobot or gaobot.ee). My website will never have executables available for download. Few people reading this website would be inclined to download a virus this stupidly designed. More likely the point of this attack is to associate links to my site with malicious software in order to stop traffic to the site. To the attacker: Agobot is designed for idiots. You are an idiot. Even Wikipedia thinks you are an idiot. Here's from the article on Ago, which gave me a laugh - " Agobot is an example of a Botnet that requires little or no programming knowledge to use. " Its been 48 hours and you've been caught. Maybe targeting network engineers isn't the brightest idea? Here is an example of a forum

You can tell from the subject line this is going to be exciting stuff! The About Me section of the site has been updated with new contact information. I have also added a fairly comprehensive statement concerning the ethics and finances of the site. What it amounts to is: feel free to reproduce anything you see here as long as you're not using it to break the law or spam. I won't take money to write a post, and I will always clarify my relationship to companies discussed in a post, when one exists. I lose money on this site (hosting is free, but my time is not), and I will continue to lose more money as the site continues to grow (we are right at the point where Blogger and free hosting in general won't cut it with our traffic). Also - everything that I write on this site is my own opinion and no one else's. The opinions on this site do not reflect those of my current or previous employers. Finally, if you ever have any concerns about something posted on the site, if