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Another example of "hacker" being problematically ambiguous. I assumed this article was about MS getting sent a bunch of open-soruce/Linux source code, and mayb
by powrtoch 16y ago
Another example of "hacker" being problematically ambiguous. I assumed this article was about MS getting sent a bunch of open-soruce/Linux source code, and maybe an insinuation of MS lifting parts of it.
Of course, it's open-source anyway, but still.
And does MS.com really get attacked 8000 times a second? Unless you're counting every individual attempt from each brute force script etc, that seems unreasonable even for them.
- tshtf 16y agoMicrosoft owns at least a /16, so that's at least 65,535 IP addresses. These numbers don't seem unreasonable at all.
- tptacek 16y agoQuite a bit more than that. They have something like 10 ASN's, many of which are advertising whole /16's.
- kjksf 16y agoIt's more of an example of you not reading the short article but commenting on it anyway. The article is about Microsoft analyzing crash reports, which include bits of compiled code that crash, and finding that sometimes those compiled bits are viruses under development.