I saw an article about this new technology that’s supposed to “stop computer viruses in their tracks.“ The idea is interesting, but overall I think it would be useful in only a very limited, focused application. Things would get far too complicated, far too quickly, for it to be both successful and at all versatile.
So I think the fact that it’s being patented, and the fawning article in New Scientist, are laughable. I was going to viciously mock them but it turns out David Harley beat me to it. He added less sarcastic commentary here.
Studying for the CISSP exam makes me really bored, so here’s a whim I pursued. I got a spam comment from the IP 93.185.199.117 . Allowing a system to post spam comments on my blog constitutes consent for me to do whatever I want to the system, so here’s what I did. First stop: DShield. There were no other reports of activity from this IP, but the Whois info contained this:
organisation: ORG-Cjc5-RIPE
org-name: Closed joint-stock company "AVIEL"
org-type: LIR
address: CJSC "AVIEL"
Vadim Maksimovskiy
2, Sovetskaya str
140108 Ramenskoye
Russian Federation
OMG THE RUSSIANS ARE HACKING ME! The next logical step was to run Nmap on it. I just did an Aggressive scan (service detection on the 1,000 most common ports and whatnot). The results were a little odd:
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I’ll make my billions by creating anti-virus software for home routers!
