Crazy Firewall Log Activity — What Does It Mean?

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?"

Comments

Re:Another Slashdot Ad?

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

Wait, is this just an advertisement for Glasshouse? The voice in the video on Green Phosphor's website is exactly the same.

It is totally the same guy - the background noise sounds identical too - like he recorded it on the same microphone with the same environmental conditions.
Hell, he even starts each narration exactly the same with the pattern of, "Hi <name> here."

Re:Another Slashdot Ad?

[NoTheory]

If you check the other uploaded videos on youtube by the same guy (who's name appears to be "Ben Lindquist", the CEO of Green Phosphor, found on blogger and twitter), there is an introduction to Green Phosphor's Glasshouse. So yeah, Slashvertisement done in the style of Lost.

Welcome to the future of advertising. /sigh.