Here's a link.
Check it out. It's fascinating.
I do not have too much time this morning, so I'm going to offer some quick thoughts.
1) There are an awful lot of attacks against the United States.
2) at any given time, 20-40% of the attacks against the US are emanating from the US.
3) most of the time, there are few attacks against Europe, and few attacks emanating from Europe. Europe is relatively dark.
4) as can be expected, a large number of attacks against the US originate in China.
5) someone is Los Angeles (and periodically a group of people in Southern California) is hitting Hong Kong hard at this time. I wonder what that's about.
OVERALL,
this chart reminds me of brain activity.
The internet can be viewed as a representation of the human hive mind. There is a sense in which humans act as one in the same way as bees or ants do. On a global scale, we are representing that hive mind with the internet.
This is a map of attacks. Therefore, this would be akin to a brain doing analysis. In other words, a brain looking at it's own products. This brain has a lot of information coming out of one central area (the United States) and a lot of other areas of the brain/hive mind are looking at that information, and responding with some sort of analysis.
These thoughts are very incomplete, and may be highly inaccurate as a metaphor.
I thought I'd throw them out there, however, just to see what else people might come up with.
UPDATE
An Anonymous commenter left this:
As to the hack locations - I have no clue 'why' certain locations are so heavily targeted. Back on July 8th, some lead stories:*NYC subway system suffered an atrocious commute, some trains stranded in stations for long periods.*Website "The Dissolve" folded today*United Airline was forced to ground all of its flights after it's computer system mysteriously stopped working.*The NYStock Exchange suspended trading today after its computerized trading system mystreiously stopped working*Immediately after, the WSJ website mysteriously stopped working.*More than 2,500 people in DC mysteriously lost power
Thats just some of the headlines...the hacks however targeted the St Louis, MO region. Why? Some suggested the region has a huge clearing house for data storage and there is a Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis. ChiComs are probably trying to interfere with global markets to soften their slide, so no one could sell anything anywhere.Another commenter posted: "in the weeks after the OPM hack, the Chinese equity market has collapsed and lost 3.7 trillion dollars - 30% of its value. China blames America and claims it's retaliation for the OPM hack. They have also told Russia that, under the terms of their cybersecurity defense pact, a state of war now exists with the USA."
Interesting times, wouldn't you say?
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FWIW...FoxNews: Flight control problem keeps flights grounded in NY and DC area 8/15/2015
Officials reported big delays Saturday at New York and Washington airports because of an air traffic control issue.
Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport reported that a computer outage was limiting flight arrivals and departures there as well as Washington's Reagan National Airport and Dulles International Airport.
The problem also affected flights leaving New York’s LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy airports, according to FlightAware’s online tracker. By 12:30 p.m. departure delays were at 1 hour and expected to grow, PIX11 News reported.
Delays out of Newark International Airport were at 30 minutes and decreasing at that particular time, the station said, according to FlightAware.
The FAA blamed an automation problem at an air traffic center in Leesburg, in suburban Virginia.
“Some flights into and out of the New York and Washington, DC metro area airports area may be delayed,” FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said. “We are directing high altitude traffic around the affected airspace.”
Government sources said the problem was not caused by computer hackers.
American Airlines said in a tweet that air traffic control issues are impacting all East Coast flights. The airline is urging passengers to plan accordingly.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
WSJ: Attacks on Fiber Networks in California Baffle FBI Authorities have yet to nail down a motive or culprit for more than a dozen breaches in the Bay Area
The attacker struck close to midnight, climbing into a manhole at the mouth of California’s Niles Canyon and slicing a series of cables that collectively carried billions of bits of Internet data.
Hundreds of miles away at a Zayo Group Holdings Inc. network operations center in ....
FAA says glitch that led to mass flight cancellations is fixed
(Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said the air traffic system that caused flight cancellations on the East Coast on Saturday is back in service, and it is working with airlines to return to normal operations.
The problem led to more than 400 flight cancellations.
(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Bernard Orr)
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