[lit-ideas] Re: Misunderstanding The information Age
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:59:25 -0400
But my point was really much more mundane. Surely we can't and
shouldn't evaluate threats based on what Eric himself acknowledged
was public posturing. Eric may be, and probably is, right about the
Chinese interest in waging cyber war but we don't help ourselves by
taking seriously rhetoric that can only be for domestic consumption.
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I can't evaluate any of the threats because I lack the technical
expertise. On would have to be at a high level of skill to correctly
evaluate some of the claims. Maybe Teemu or Andreas?
From an amateur perspective, I will add this. I have security
software installed on my computer that alerts me to certain types of
port scans, as well as tracing software that goes after the IP hops
of the source of the port scans. [Caution: don't do this. It will
make you unnecessarily paranoid about the Internet.]
Most of these port-scans I examined were background noise and
spiderbots, but some of the more persistent ones I kept in a file
and backtraced. Nine out of ten of them came from China. For some
reason, Chinese railroad company servers were often used. Finally, I
went through the drudge work of blocking the entire IP-range of
China. Port scans dropped away like the clothing of a honeymooner.
Now I only have a few, a couple from Egypt and some US high-speed
sources.
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