From xkcd to Reality: The ANT Censuses of the Internet Address Space
Paul McNamara writes on the NetworkWorld Buzzblog:
No door-to-door canvassing here: This census involved the direction of some 3 billion pings toward 2.8 million allocated Internet addresses from three machines over the course of two months.More here.
And, oddly enough, the researchers say their project – designed to help predict future trends and improve ‘Net security -- received data-presentation advice from an unexpected source: a comic strip, albeit one fittingly made popular by the Web.
Such a comprehensive census of the “visible Internet” had not been undertaken since 1982 when David Smallberg conducted a full accounting of what was then a mere 315 allocated addresses, according to researchers at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute.
Image source: xkcd
posted by Fergie @ 10/09/2007 01:08:00 PM
2 Comments:
Same Comic, this time Security and SQL Injection.
Check out http://xkcd.com/327
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--Wade
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- ferg
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