Liberty Systems & Software

One of my clients had some very interesting Internet traffic statistics last week.  We came in Thursday morning and found that overnight we had downloaded over 700 GB of data from our ISP (UQ SchoolsNet).

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Whirlpool are running their yearly broadband survey for the month of January 2010.  If you're a broadband user, please participate in their survey - all broadband users in Australia benefit from Whirlpool's great efforts in this area.

Project Honeypot just published a report of their experience in processing 1 billion spam messages.  Highlights for the impatient:

• For the past 5 years, spam "bots have grown at a compound annual growth rate of more than 378%. In other words, the number of bots has nearly quadrupled ever year."
• The top 5 countries which host bots are: China (11.4%), Brazil (9.2%), United States (7.5%), Turkey (6.3%), and Germany (6.0%).
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Whirlpool has just released the results of its 2008 broadband survey. Essential reading for anyone who uses broadband, especially for those considering renewing their contracts.

It appears a spambot has found one of my personal domains attractive.

Despite this, i've received no spam that has actually made it through my SpamAssassin/Thunderbird setup. The lessons i've been learning about this recently have led me to create a wiki page about it.

Now this is just plain bizarre:
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