In article <7LydnSH8AJUlBjnbnZ2dnUVZ_sfinZ2d@giganews.com>, Mark K.
Bilbo <gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote:

This is interesting...

http://tinyurl.com/2potgq

Before my workplace put my workstation behind a firewall router, I used
to have network monitoring software perpetually running in the
background, recording unsolicited traffic coming to my workstation from
off-capmus. I wanted to see what the world was trying to do to me.
"Recreational paranoia" I called it. The reason it was only recreational
was that most incoming traffic was either trying to exploit MS Windows
security vulnerabilities, and I was running SunOS, or it was trying to
deliver spam, and I had configured my workstation not to receive email.

The screen shots at the URL you give, showing traffic arriving at
Richard Compton's computer, leave out too much important information.
For example, they don't show whether the incoming traffic is UDP or TCP
and they don't show the port number on Compton's computer that the
remote site was sending to. That would give us a hint as to the purpose
of the incoming traffic from United Nations Development Program, DoD
Network Information Center, and Halliburton.

Computers at large companies and government agencies -- yes, even the
Department of Defense -- have been broken into by hackers and/or
spammers who then used them to send spam or search for more machines
with exploitable security vulnerabilities. If the incoming traffic from
big US Government angencies and Halliburton is using the same protocol
and port number as the random hits from China and Brazil, it is not a
sign of anything other than the fact that the people in charge of your
national security can't secure their computers... Sleep well tonight.