23 March 2013

Internet Census 2012 ~ Spiegel Spots PC Botnet

Der Spiegel's Christian Stöcker and Judith Horchert write about Mapping the Internet: A Hacker's Secret Internet Census...
"Just how big is the Internet? An anonymous hacker claims to have answered the question via effective but illegal means. The result is a fascinating reflection of online usage around the world."
The resulting report Internet Census 2012: Port scanning /0 using insecure embedded devices by Carna Botnet who, in the end writes...
"I did not want to ask myself for the rest of my life how much fun it could have been or if the infrastructure I imagined in my head would have worked as expected. I saw the chance to really work on an Internet scale, command hundred thousands of devices with a click of my mouse, portscan and map the whole Internet in a way nobody had done before, basically have fun with computers and the Internet in a way very few people ever will. I decided it would be worth my time."
See here animated GIF showing night-to-day pulse of Internet use, colored red-to-blue, not including mobiles...

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