Comments on: Time-lapse of botnet's spread around the world http://boingboing.net/2009/01/07/timelapse-of-botnets.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 11:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/01/07/timelapse-of-botnets.html#comment-671749 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-671749 Its interesting, it seems to pulse on the hour. Its interesting, it seems to pulse on the hour.

]]> By: Chris Tucker http://boingboing.net/2009/01/07/timelapse-of-botnets.html#comment-373303 Chris Tucker Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-373303 Botnets, spammer's botnets. What kind of boxes are on on botnets? Compaq, HP, Dell and Sony, true! Gateway, packard Bell, maybe even Asus, too. Are boxes, found on botnets. All running Windows. FOO! Botnets, spammer’s botnets.
What kind of boxes are on on botnets?

Compaq, HP, Dell and Sony, true!
Gateway, packard Bell, maybe even Asus, too.

Are boxes, found on botnets.
All running Windows. FOO!

]]> By: Chris Tucker http://boingboing.net/2009/01/07/timelapse-of-botnets.html#comment-374092 Chris Tucker Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-374092 @#10 Humor. Let me attempt to explain it to you. @#10

Humor. Let me attempt to explain it to you.

]]> By: drew3ooo http://boingboing.net/2009/01/07/timelapse-of-botnets.html#comment-373363 drew3ooo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-373363 I'm more interested in the vast dark areas of the map. Botnet also shows how unequal wealth/technology distribution remains. I’m more interested in the vast dark areas of the map. Botnet also shows how unequal wealth/technology distribution remains.

]]> By: drew3ooo http://boingboing.net/2009/01/07/timelapse-of-botnets.html#comment-373365 drew3ooo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-373365 I'm more interested in the vast dark areas of the map. Botnet also shows how unequal wealth/technology distribution remains. I’m more interested in the vast dark areas of the map. Botnet also shows how unequal wealth/technology distribution remains.

]]> By: Agent 86 http://boingboing.net/2009/01/07/timelapse-of-botnets.html#comment-373368 Agent 86 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-373368 Botnet... the New Red Scare! Also, another virus map http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y59donv179g Botnet… the New Red Scare!

Also, another virus map
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y59donv179g

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/01/07/timelapse-of-botnets.html#comment-373688 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-373688 Bad informational graphics always leave you wondering what you just saw. Compare Florence Nightingale's 1858 "coxcomb" graphs, or Minard's 1869 graphic presentation of Napoleon's march on Moscow, if you want to see how bad most modern graphics really are. Computers just make composition easier and faster, not better. Chris, the most powerful botnets have multiple node types; the controller nodes are often linux and the sheep being herded are windows. When you can't figure out where or what the controllers are, or how they are publishing their commands, you can be pretty sure they are linux. Bad informational graphics always leave you wondering what you just saw. Compare Florence Nightingale’s 1858 “coxcomb” graphs, or Minard’s 1869 graphic presentation of Napoleon’s march on Moscow, if you want to see how bad most modern graphics really are. Computers just make composition easier and faster, not better.

Chris, the most powerful botnets have multiple node types; the controller nodes are often linux and the sheep being herded are windows.

When you can’t figure out where or what the controllers are, or how they are publishing their commands, you can be pretty sure they are linux.

]]> By: holtt http://boingboing.net/2009/01/07/timelapse-of-botnets.html#comment-373436 holtt Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-373436 Bravo Chris :^) Bravo Chris :^)

]]> By: Agent 86 http://boingboing.net/2009/01/07/timelapse-of-botnets.html#comment-373692 Agent 86 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-373692 I could be wrong, but I think the red is the initial infection by the botnet, and the pulsing white is actual participation in / use by the botnet. I could be wrong, but I think the red is the initial infection by the botnet, and the pulsing white is actual participation in / use by the botnet.

]]> By: RedShirt77 http://boingboing.net/2009/01/07/timelapse-of-botnets.html#comment-373442 RedShirt77 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-373442 Why don't they start with no red and then go until their is lots of red? It just looks like a lot of pulsating pink dots to me. Why don’t they start with no red and then go until their is lots of red? It just looks like a lot of pulsating pink dots to me.

]]> By: gATO http://boingboing.net/2009/01/07/timelapse-of-botnets.html#comment-373443 gATO Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-373443 Drew3000: You're right, but to be fair, some of those dark areas mostly unpopulated (which makes the botnet spread even more alarming). Drew3000: You’re right, but to be fair, some of those dark areas mostly unpopulated (which makes the botnet spread even more alarming).

]]> By: nanuq http://boingboing.net/2009/01/07/timelapse-of-botnets.html#comment-373445 nanuq Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-373445 The Great Firewall of China doesn't seem to be providing much protection. I guess this botnet isn't subversive enough. The Great Firewall of China doesn’t seem to be providing much protection. I guess this botnet isn’t subversive enough.

]]> By: SamSam http://boingboing.net/2009/01/07/timelapse-of-botnets.html#comment-373448 SamSam Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-373448 I'm with #6, but maybe I don't understand the map. Are there any new lights at the end that weren't there on the first day, at 15:00? At seems that the entire spread happened in the first couple hours -- the rest is just unexplained pulsing. I’m with #6, but maybe I don’t understand the map. Are there any new lights at the end that weren’t there on the first day, at 15:00? At seems that the entire spread happened in the first couple hours — the rest is just unexplained pulsing.

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