On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:01:03PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: | | "Trei, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > 1. Do you have any particular evidence that any significant | > number of US .gov machines are bots? They may well be, just | > I haven't heard this. | | I've heard nothing formal, but my strong understanding is a lot of US | government machines, at least if we're talking workstations on | non-classified nets, are in fact "0wn3d" at this point. This should
http://blog.support-intelligence.com/2007/04/doa-week-14-2007.html claims to measure bot activity. Now, it may be that US .gov hosts are worth more, and so don't get used in random DOS attacks, but I think this is some of the more interesting evidence out there. I've asked some questions about it in http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2007/04/month_of_owned_corporatio.html Speaking for me only, Adam --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
