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Stories and comments across the archive that link to quova.com.

Stories · 3

  1. Crazy Firewall Log Activity — What Does It Mean?

    Ask · · posted by kdawson · from the mainly-on-the-plane dept. · 344 comments
    arkowitz writes "I happened to have access to five days worth of firewall logs from a US state government agency. I wrote a parser to grab unique IPs out, and sent several million of them to a company called Quova, who gave me back full location info on every 40th one. I then used Green Phosphor's Glasshouse visualization tool to have a look at the count of inbound packets, grouped by country of origin and hour. And it's freaking crazy looking. So I made the video of it and I'm asking the Slashdot community: What the heck is going on?"

  2. Major League Baseball Releases Webcasting Plans

    Tech · Internet · · posted by chrisd · from the bring-back-the-mbone dept. · 260 comments
    TopShelf writes "With spring in the air, it's time to discuss the (US) national pastime. According to this story at CNN, Major League Baseball is planning to webcast 1,000 games this season. The interesting part is that in order not to violate TV blackout rules, they'll try to deny service to viewers who instead have local broadcasts available, using Quova's user-location service. At last, an opportunity to see my hometown Detroit Tigers more than once a year!"

  3. Quova Inc. Completes Trace of 4 billion IP Addresses

    Yro · Internet · · posted by timothy · from the wait-till-IPV6-for-the-real-fun dept. · 182 comments
    RatzMilk writes: "Quova Inc. claim they have completed a global scanning system [Note: first mentioned on Slashdot in July -- timothy] that pinpoints the geographic location of Internet users in real time. The information gathered is then sold as a tool called 'GeoPoint' that can be used by advertisers to better target their advertisments to people based on their location. It doesn't rely on cookies or voluntary submissions from users, instead, using a data base built by scanning every host on the Internet. In gathering this information, they set off alarms all over the world, and yet, it seems that this is an accceptable practice in the eyes of the law. Individual people are having their computers impounded and in some cases are being incarcerated for doing the same. ... Further details on this story can be found at Security Focus." (Sorry, but Security Focus is not designed for direct linking; click on the link that says "Scanning Mystery Solved.") [Updated 5:58 GMT by timothy] Scratch the comment about deep linking; I've restored the link RatzMilk provided, which originally brought me only "page not found" errors. Hope it works for everyone ...