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Crazy Firewall Log Activity — What Does It Mean?

Posted by kdawson on from the mainly-on-the-plane dept.

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?"

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  1. obviously by flyneye · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's a Denial of Reality attack from Democratic Chinese Youth for Christ protesting Iraqi Bacon Bits embargo.
    Go figure. You could probably blame Hillbillary Clinton for refusing to recognize Constitutional Rights. I'm sure the attack will subside when we send Sen. Tedward Kennedy over to give swimming lessons. This international diplomacy thing isn't hard to figure out. We'll just let the Wichita Air Nat'l Guard fire up their Windoze boxes and challenge them to a round of GO.

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    1. Re:obviously by AlexWillisson · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Where are mod points when you need them? Parent desperately needs to be modded something OTHER than informative.

  2. What's going on? by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So I made the video of it and I'm asking the Slashdot community: What the heck is going on?

    You badly need a new hobby.

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  3. An Attempt at a Hardware Executable by not_hylas(+) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    An Attempt at a Hardware Executable:

    I've notices like kinds of this type of programing in "dead" boot block areas in disks, spirals, grids, pseudo (IDE) worlds.
    Got to run, check my nick for more:

    http://slashdot.org/~not_hylas(+)/

    A friends site:

    http://subversionhack.livejournal.com/

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  4. Re:That wasn't complaining. THIS is complaining. by arkowitz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All you have to do is click once on the green cube at the origin and you have the description of the axes... but as that is not enough, I am going to add a feature with better axis descriptions. Optional of course. :)