Re: Some weekend entertainment

[Hank Nussbacher <hank () efes iucc ac il>]

At 11:37 AM 03-12-05 -0700, Dude VanWinkle wrote:
> On 12/3/05, Hank Nussbacher <hank () efes iucc ac il> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Peter Kruse wrote:
> > I think this is a direct result of their research at Internet mapping:
> > http://www.netdimes.org/
> > They may have been brainstorming and saying "now that we have such a large
> > botnet under our control and we have mapped the Internet, what should we
> > do now?"
>
> They probably should have fixed their site before mapping the entire
> Internet ;-)
>
> (from http://www.netdimes.org/data.php)
> Warning: mysql_pconnect(): Lost connection to MySQL server during
> query in /var/www/html/DIMES/data.php on line 169
> Lost connection to MySQL server during query

Already stated in their forums:
http://www.netdimes.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=498

-Hank


> > and the answer probably was, "what if we converted these 30,000 systems
> > into honeypots and captured virii and ..."
>
> LOL, that sounds like the most plausible explanation suggested. I hope
> they decide against this, as their "wormholes" will be owned pretty
> quickly, and actually be used to beat virus def's.  Imagine: you have
> one network of machines distributing a package of signatures to detect
> viri. Someone hijacks 1 machine and sends out a viri rather than a
> signature update. Bam! Instant botnet!
>
>  -JP
> "Shut yer Wormholes"
> -Captain Cisco
>
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