EagerEyes Shorts

Musings on visualization, photography, programming, etc. that are too long for Twitter but too short for (or don't fit) my visualization website, EagerEyes.org. Part of my vanity website, kosara.net, which is most notable for hosting my list of publications. If you still want to know more, see my university page at UNC Charlotte, and/or follow me on Twitter.

There has been an interesting decrease in attempted comment spam on my website over the last two weeks. This may have to do with the recent attack on the Mega-D botnet, which was effectively destroyed by security researchers. The possibility of taking out botnets has been debated for a while, but so far only as a theoretical idea. The results of this attack speak for itself, and I hope that this will be done more in the future.

Posted at 10:51am and tagged with: spam, Mollom, botnet, decrease,.

There has been an interesting decrease in attempted comment spam on my website over the last two weeks. This may have to do with the recent attack on the Mega-D botnet, which was effectively destroyed by security researchers. The possibility of taking out botnets has been debated for a while, but so far only as a theoretical idea. The results of this attack speak for itself, and I hope that this will be done more in the future.