From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6ec8df5df532a28f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What is Delta?? References: <1147335626.779489.9240@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <2914908.GvrD7n1EFI@linux1.krischik.com> From: M E Leypold Date: 17 May 2006 16:46:56 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.72.220.184 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1147876960 88.72.220.184 (17 May 2006 16:42:40 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4289 Date: 2006-05-17T16:46:56+02:00 List-Id: Martin Krischik writes: > Interesting. I somehow had the suspicion that both work for the same company > which has got some Ada contract without actually haven any Ada programmers. > I did not want to raise that point without proof - my suspicion was based > on similar sounding names (Indian?) - which is no proof at all, both using > gmail for E-Mail, and google for news. > > But same IP - thats a different matter. Well - it might also be the proxy IP of a provider who uses a NAT-Proxy for all of his Dial-In users. Providers like this exist, i.e. Infocity in Germany. Before I buy Craig's conspiracy theory (that this higher frequency of unusual questions is an attack :-) I'd like to know more about how the attacker would profit from that kind of attack. Around one newbie per week who doesn't know how to ask questions properly doesn't seem an exceptionally high number to me. An alternative theory to explain the coincidence of "similar sounding" names or the same IP (i.e. probably coming from the same NATted local network) would be: There is university somewhere which is teaching an SE course for which Ada is required. "Sathish Veluswamy" just asked his questions striaght forward whereas "Ananth" realized that nobody here would be interested overly much in doing his homework, so he _pretented_ doing research for "his company". Seems even more probably than a company having an Ada contract (and for a security critical system too) w/o any Ada programmers and now trying to learn Ada on the usenet, fast. But all that is speculation and OT. Only wanted to hint, that IPs don't say so much. Regards -- Markus