Freewolf
Diamond Member
They actually send an email to Cox.
It is still running on my machines ( I never stopped)
"Dear Sir/Madam,
My name is Eran Shir and I am the manager of the DIMES research
project (www.netDimes.org) which aims to map the evolution of the
Internet
with the help of many volunteers from more than 80 countries. The
DIMES project has got a great reputation with articles about it
appearing
in some of the major journals and media outlets in the world, such as
Science magazine, Slashdot, IEEE Infocom conference and others.
Recently it has come to my attention that one of our volunteers,
which is CCed on this letter, has got an email from you claiming that
he has on his computer
a malicious program which does network probing that are not allowed.
It seems that the trigger to your correspondence was the working of
our research program,
which performs pings and traceroute from our volunteers computers. In
order to not be seen as a problematic software we have hard coded
into our agent
a very strong rate limit, and the agent does at most 4 measurements
per minute, each of them containing either 4 traceroutes or 4 pings.
This amounts to a very small network print
which does not suppose to cause any alarms, and indeed it does not,
as you are the first ISP which approached our volunteers in the last
six months or more.
While I understand that your Intrusion Detection Systems are probably
triggered automatically I would be very grateful if you would allow
the user jamesfreewolf@cox.net to continue
contributing to our research endeavor. Of course if you have certain
IP addresses you wish us not to probe, we would be more than happy to
remove them permanently from our list of IPs.
Also, you can feel free to download our agent's source code and
inspect it yourself, to make sure it does no harm, and to contact us
with any question/comment.
Warmest regards,
Eran Shir
The DIMES project
It is still running on my machines ( I never stopped)
"Dear Sir/Madam,
My name is Eran Shir and I am the manager of the DIMES research
project (www.netDimes.org) which aims to map the evolution of the
Internet
with the help of many volunteers from more than 80 countries. The
DIMES project has got a great reputation with articles about it
appearing
in some of the major journals and media outlets in the world, such as
Science magazine, Slashdot, IEEE Infocom conference and others.
Recently it has come to my attention that one of our volunteers,
which is CCed on this letter, has got an email from you claiming that
he has on his computer
a malicious program which does network probing that are not allowed.
It seems that the trigger to your correspondence was the working of
our research program,
which performs pings and traceroute from our volunteers computers. In
order to not be seen as a problematic software we have hard coded
into our agent
a very strong rate limit, and the agent does at most 4 measurements
per minute, each of them containing either 4 traceroutes or 4 pings.
This amounts to a very small network print
which does not suppose to cause any alarms, and indeed it does not,
as you are the first ISP which approached our volunteers in the last
six months or more.
While I understand that your Intrusion Detection Systems are probably
triggered automatically I would be very grateful if you would allow
the user jamesfreewolf@cox.net to continue
contributing to our research endeavor. Of course if you have certain
IP addresses you wish us not to probe, we would be more than happy to
remove them permanently from our list of IPs.
Also, you can feel free to download our agent's source code and
inspect it yourself, to make sure it does no harm, and to contact us
with any question/comment.
Warmest regards,
Eran Shir
The DIMES project
