At last week’s IT Security Training Event, a competition was held to guess how long it would take to display 69,404,957 IP addresses. Those addresses represent machines that were attacked by a recently compromised computer at K-State.
It would have taken 28 days, 2 hours, and 46 minutes to scroll all of the attacked addresses.
The contest was won by Jeremiah Shirk, whose guess of 25 days, 2 hours, and 14 minutes won him the April 13 “Garry Kasparov birthday present” (a small chess set). In second place was Seth Galitzer, whose guess of 33 days and 16 hours won him the “Thomas Jefferson’s birthday present” (a 2 dollar bill).
