On 2006 Sep 21 , at 05:16, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote:
Adam Martin wrote:
[snip]
Boy, between spam, sshd-bruteforce attempts, and tons of other
stuff.... the 'net has become such an annoying place these days.
Every
year this stuff seems to just get worse... *sigh* All this net-trash
gives me a headache. What a waste of technology, resources, and
bandwidth.
What bothers me is that all these probes, scans, spams etc still
succeeds in some cases, otherwise nobody would be doing them.
As long as people click on spamlinks and leave their systems open to
automated intrusion, we will have to live with this kind of behavior.
But, as you say, it is a damn waste.
I think it's just that I pine for better days. Just 5 years ago, this
behaviour was restricted mostly to Windoze systems. 5 years before
that, the notion of net-wide "evil traffic" as a constant background
noise was far fetched. And just 5 years before that, 15 years ago, the
notion of loads of background evil traffic was, as far as I recall,
appalling.
After the whole of that spam episode, combined with several spikes in
local ssh-bruteforce attempts... I just felt despondent. I still do.
It seems like the whole 'net has gone to hell in a handbasket. So as I
said, I pine for better days. But I think I am a curmudgeon these days
:-)
Regards,
--
Adam David Alan Martin
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