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Researchers Probe Dark and Murky Net

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the walled-garden dept.

umm qasr writes: "Security Focus has an interesting article on blocks of internet space that are hidden from most users, it is based on a survey by Arbor Networks. The most common 'invisible sites' being .mil, which seems is unintentional. The survey suggests others, which seem more sinister...using unused netblock addresses to send spam. It's a bit short on the details but interesting none the less."

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  1. Researchers probe dark and murky net... by smaughster · · Score: 1, Redundant

    In other words: science discovers goatse.cx

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    I intend to live forever, so far so good.
  2. Anyone tried a massive nmap? by josquint · · Score: 0, Redundant

    might be somewhat offtopic, but...
    anyone actually try an nmap -sS -O 0.0.0.0-255.255.255.255
    i think it'd be an intresting project anyway. your ISP'd be pissed i'd think and it'd take FOREVER...
    but it think it'd be interesting to see the log file... make for some interesting data mining maybe too