[asterisk-users] Why are the hackers scanning for these?

[sean darcy]

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Cary Fitch <caryf at usawide.net> wrote:
> Adding on more thoughts:
>
> Think what Google has done in Mapping the Earth, Mapping the Web, and now
> working on Google Voice and Google Mail.
>
> Every one of those makes money either directly and/or synergistically with
> other components.
>
> Now consider someone with "telephone" interests or spam interests.  In this
> modern database and filtering and probing age, load in ARIN or RIPE IP
> Ranges, start building database data and filters, and let it run...
>
> And the other IP areas too.
>
> Cary
>
>
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All makes me think of forcing an ip address change each night by
spoofing the mac address. Each day they'd have to find me anew!

sean