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posted by n1 on Wednesday October 01 2014, @09:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the because-it-was-fun-the-first-time dept.

According to the project's website, the Internet Census 2012 researchers are crowdfunding next internet-wide research via Bitcoin.

"We are working on a vast and ground-breaking census, this time we hope to do it legally. Please help us make this happen by donating bitcoins to: 1tUCEnTyKzWrTBn1tgruSRkfahGUhxHcq"

Internet Census 2012 was a biggest complete scan of the entire internet with results being publicly available. This included traceroute information, port scanning, service and OS fingerprinting and more.

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  • (Score: 2) by d on Wednesday October 01 2014, @10:44AM

    by d (523) on Wednesday October 01 2014, @10:44AM (#100385)

    I guess that "legal" here means that they're not going to be hacking routers anymore. Personally, I'm surprised that they hadn't get caught yet. Anyway, this data set is amazing.

    • (Score: 2) by MrGuy on Wednesday October 01 2014, @12:44PM

      by MrGuy (1007) on Wednesday October 01 2014, @12:44PM (#100427)

      Yeah, see, there's this website we know in Russia that lets you rent out their "distributed computing environment" at an hourly fee and do whatever you want with it. Hundreds of thousands of nodes. It's made up of computers all over the world, they tell me, on every network (though mostly consumer ones).

      And it's, like, totally legal, because there no law in the country the website is hosted in that specifically forbids this sort of thing. Laws!

      • (Score: 2) by meisterister on Thursday October 02 2014, @12:59AM

        by meisterister (949) on Thursday October 02 2014, @12:59AM (#100776) Journal

        That actually just piqued my interest. Would it be possible to get the authorities to look the other way if, say, f@h enlisted the help of the world's godawful infected boxes? I mean, the only real problem is that that would involve advancing our species as opposed to lining someone's pockets...

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Wednesday October 01 2014, @05:46PM

    by frojack (1554) on Wednesday October 01 2014, @05:46PM (#100557) Journal

    Watching my firewall logs the other day made it abundantly clear i participate in entirely too goddamned already.

    I see no reason to fund another.

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  • (Score: 2) by Snow on Wednesday October 01 2014, @07:37PM

    by Snow (1601) on Wednesday October 01 2014, @07:37PM (#100611) Journal

    So far they haven't collected anything:

    https://blockchain.info/address/1tUCEnTyKzWrTBn1tgruSRkfahGUhxHcq [blockchain.info]