Spybot, adaware, and MalWare bytes. I hadn't even thought of them; I was all fixated on Ookla... and why it wouldn't work. I will query those folks. Cheers, - jra On February 18, 2014 3:56:19 PM EST, Robert Drake <rdrake@direcpath.com> wrote:
Is using data from a self-selected group even meaningful when extrapolated? It's been a while since Stats in college, and it's very likely the guys from MIT know more than I do, but one of the big
On 2/18/2014 2:19 PM, James Milko wrote: things
they pushed was random sampling.
JM
Isn't it probable that people who know enough to download the spoofer projects program and run it might also be in position to fix things when it's broken, or they may just be testing their own networks which they've already secured, just to verify they got it right.
I may put it on my laptop and start testing random places like Starbucks, my moms house, conventions and other things, but if I'm running it from my home machine it's just to get the gold "I did this" star.
So yeah, data from the project is probably meaningless unless someone uses it as a worm payload and checks 50,000 computers randomly (of course I don't advise this. I just wish there was a way to really push
this to be run by everyone in the world for a week)
Maybe with enough hype we could get CNN to advise people to download it. Actually, it would be nice if someone who writes security software
like NOD32 or Malwarebytes, or spybot, adaware, etc, would integrate it
into their test suite. Then you get the thousands of users from them added to the results.
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