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NETI@home Data Analyzed

Posted by timothy on from the sharpen-your-knives dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The NETI@home Internet traffic statistics project (featured in Wired and Slashdot previously) has a quick analysis on the malicious traffic they observed. It's a rough world out there." Perhaps not suprising, but still disheartening, the researchers find among other things that a large portion of typical end-user traffic consists of malicious connection attempts.

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  1. Re:But did they find intelligent life? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    and all their ports open

    Excellent. But are they female?

  2. Re:But did they find intelligent life? by Donald+Ferrone · · Score: -1, Troll

    Irrelevant, we're faggots posting on Slashdot.

    --
    Donald Ferrone, Ph.D
    Professor of computer science
    http://www.geocities.com/donald_ferrone/
  3. Do they care? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Part of the problem is that the Windows users emitting all this traffic just don't care, which is why these botnets just stay up. "It doesn't affect me! Why should I bother scanning for malware?"

    What really ought to happen is that lusers who don't secure their boxen should be held liable for all the damage they cause through their reckless irresponsibility.

    All my boxen run Hardened Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/), and I'd be willing to take the responsibility. Let's see what would happen to the 'net if everyone else did.

  4. gna4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    steadily fucking FreeBSD used to GAY NIGGERS FROM market. Therefore

  5. Re:Not necessarily a Bad Thing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I -still- think there should have been Internet user licenses, just like we have driver's licenses...

    Stupid elitist fascist. You're an idiot.