Crazy Firewall Log Activity — What Does It Mean? 344
arkowitz writes "I happened to have access to five days worth of firewall logs from a US state government agency. I wrote a parser to grab unique IPs out, and sent several million of them to a company called Quova, who gave me back full location info on every 40th one. I then used Green Phosphor's Glasshouse visualization tool to have a look at the count of inbound packets, grouped by country of origin and hour. And it's freaking crazy looking. So I made the video of it and I'm asking the Slashdot community: What the heck is going on?"
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2001 (Score:2, Funny)
Anyone else tempted to hum the theme tune to 2001 when they looked at that?
And also... "oh my god... it's full of stars"
I'm confused (Score:2, Funny)
Re:2001 (Score:5, Funny)
And also... "oh my god... it's full of bars"
Fixed that for you.
Great ways to start a conversation (Score:5, Funny)
"I happened to have access to five days worth of firewall logs from a US state government agency..."
"While skimming through my grandmother's cookbook, I stumbled upon a recipe for processing yellowcake uranium..."
"In passing, a close personal friend mentioned to me that he would deploy ~30k troops to a Mideastern country, but he's worried that the local restaurantuers won't serve fresh babaganoush ..."
"While I was talking to a famous adult film star about my successful experiment with cold fusion..."
"I was fighting against an alien invasion of the Soviet Union the other day. Natalie Portman and I prepared a platoon of sharks with frickin' hotgrits cannons on their heads, but the unwelcome overlords kept jumping the sharks..."
Re:Another Slashdot Ad? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Great ways to start a conversation (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Skylab Shreds (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Skylab Shreds (Score:3, Funny)
Not sure what it means, but I'm tempted to plug-in Guitar Hero and jam along to your firewall logs.
Just let me finish my Klax game first.
Worst. Advert. Ever. (Score:1, Funny)
"Hi! I've created this awesome freaky-looking visualisation tool! It's so fucking useless that even I, the author, can't actually determine any useful information from the output it shows me, so I have to go ask some random commenters on a website if they've got a single sodding clue what's going on.
Wanna buy it?"