Comments on: United States Government (DoD) Online Watchdogs? Are they part of the war on terror? Or is someone spoofing government IPs?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:51:00 +0000

@Steve – good one you made me smile early on a tuesday afternoon ;)

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:36:00 +0000

OMG!!! It’s Skynet embedding itself on all our systems!! T3 is coming true!! Oh noes run for a shelter!!!

By: jaylcee

jaylcee — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:00:00 +0000

any unwaranted traffic should be cut off immediately blacklist the ips or something dont just let them stagnate be proactive and nip it in the bud buddy.

By: Psymon101

Psymon101 — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:57:00 +0000

The goverment has been checking/monitoring communication pathways for years.. Lookup up Echelon on Google.

By: The Slothman

The Slothman — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:47:00 +0000

Here's my theory...

Pay attention to when you receive the most spam.

Usually it is monday through friday. Less so on the weekends. Almost none on US government holidays.

The theory is that the probes you're seeing is bots out there. The government is notorious for not patching nor having the best security/policies on their machines. The result is a lot of bots in their networks that send spam and try and find new bots.

I used to work for a guy who was a consultant for a division of the UN, and trust me...you don't want that guy handling security for ANYTHING.

I'd say 90% of it is bot type attempts. But I would not be surprised if the government is trying to penetrate machines, regardless of OS, to put spyware on the machines to glean information, or possibly do a type of grid computing a la SETI@Home to crunch the mountains of data that they have.

I say it is much ado about nothing, but keep an eye on it for sure!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:26:00 +0000

where can i get those applications and are the free and for windows?