Should I be worried that most of my comment spam from the last few days seems to be coming from machines in the .mil domain? I can’t think of any valid reason that someone in the armed forces would want me to go to some of the sites that I’ve blacklisted, but I guess it could be a very strange recruitment program…
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\nWhat’s much more likely, and much more worrisome, is that someone is using these computers to post comments via remote control. And the idea of someone having remote control access to a military computer is<\/b> a bit worrying, even if they’re only using it to flood my comments with advertisements.<\/p>\n
So. Anyone out there know who I ought to contact about this? I did a Google search and came up dry. If someone can let me know if there’s a .mil sysadmin who investigates these sort of thigns, I’ll gladly forward them the relevant bits of my access and error logs. Even if all it’ll show is that someone from X machine tried to post here at Y time, it’ll still let them know which “X” machines are being used as zombies…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Should I be worried that most of my comment spam from the last few days seems to be coming from machines in the .mil domain? I can’t think of any valid reason that someone in the armed forces would want … Continue reading