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[Adam Martin]

On 2006 Sep 21 , at 05:16, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote:

> Adam Martin wrote:
> [snip]
>>     Boy, between spam, sshd-bruteforce attempts, and tons of other
>> stuff.... the 'net has become such an annoying place these days.  
>> Every
>> year this stuff seems to just get worse... *sigh*  All this net-trash
>> gives me a headache.  What a waste of technology, resources, and 
>> bandwidth.
>
> What bothers me is that all these probes, scans, spams etc still
> succeeds in some cases, otherwise nobody would be doing them.
> As long as people click on spamlinks and leave their systems open to
> automated intrusion, we will have to live with this kind of behavior.
> But, as you say, it is a damn waste.

	I think it's just that I pine for better days.  Just 5 years ago, this 
behaviour was restricted mostly to Windoze systems.  5 years before 
that, the notion of net-wide "evil traffic" as a constant background 
noise was far fetched.  And just 5 years before that, 15 years ago, the 
notion of loads of background evil traffic was, as far as I recall, 
appalling.

	After the whole of that spam episode, combined with several spikes in 
local ssh-bruteforce attempts... I just felt despondent.  I still do.  
It seems like the whole 'net has gone to hell in a handbasket.  So as I 
said, I pine for better days.  But I think I am a curmudgeon these days 
:-)

Regards,

--
Adam David Alan Martin