[Cialug] OT: E-mail patterns and predictions of doom

[Tom Pohl]

This idea can and are also extrapolated to other areas like network  
attacks.  When I was running wifi hotspots across about 20 different  
ISPs (some related and some not) attack trends were always interesting  
to study to kind of get an advance warning of something big coming.

The Internet Storm Center does this on a much larger scale:
http://isc.sans.org/

-Tom


On Jun 25, 2009, at 8:15 PM, Paul Gray wrote:

> This circulated through our department today:
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227135.900-email-patterns-can-predict-impending-doom.html
>
> I couldn't help but wonder about similar patterns that might be  
> "observed" by
> those on this list that administrate for the State of Iowa.
>
> No doubt the state government of South Carolina saw some interesting  
> e-mail
> patterns this week.
>
> -- 
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