Visual DDoS Representation and Its Ramifications

winterbc writes "Prolexic has a report on Zombie infections that bring a visual representation of a DDoS attack. Besides being a rather cool picture, it brings to mind a possible future of personal computing. I would love to see a real-time picture of my 'net connections as my desktop picture, allowing me to change my 'net habits based on what I see. For example, I can download new images from the OPTE Project and set my desktop that way, but a more individual pathway highlighted with my favorite color could happen someday. My point is that while DDoS are painfully ubiquitous today, tomorrow visual mapping in real-time could be a path to the source of the problem."

Comments

In the future will we have net traffic reports?

[rokzy]

I hope not!

isn't the whole point that there's redundancy and stuff to make things reliable and invisible to the end user?

time spent visualising problems is a total waste unless you use it to stop the problem happening again. and prevention is better than cure.