Topic: Evil score visualization - page 2. (Read 2893 times)

Looks like a Nebula.


What does X & Y axis stand for in this image ?

I'm not understanding why it is an issue if someone could work out evil IP ranges. The high ones are almost all going to be VPNs and it doesn't identify anyone. The years of data may be useful to others operating other bitcoin services to pre-empt problems before they occur. Regardless, deconstructing the image is beyond my paygrade so unless someone else can get me the pixel data into a written data form I'll have to pass.

Looks pretty good. How long did it take you to visualize it? I always wonder why you never tend to update (points @reported posts and accuracy). Honestly, I was expecting more red blocks.

You can already reconstruct a lot of the data from the graph with some work. Given a pixel position, you can calculate its /24 address. I'm hesitant to publish the source data because, given that, it's more likely that you'll be able to figure out which data entries I fudged.

All IPs on file for them are banned, and each one will affect its neighbors.


Yes. This map is pretty short-term. And I'm probably not going to update it. But it's still interesting IMO.

Last I heard they do decay.


@Theymos is there a way to convert/anon the data such that it could be released? I've never visualised something of only nodes, would be interesting to see what Gephi can do.

Do evil points ever fade away over time or is the map consistent for certain ranges.
And it looks like the Internet is not so evil after all except for that one well defined corner  

It is most probably the IP address the account is registered with.

Just curious - Is it the last used IP? What happens when the IP an account registered with, is different from the IPs used later on?

When someone is banned, their IP and some of their neighboring IPs receive evil points. The thought occurred to me recently that you could create a map of the Internet according to evil points, and I couldn't resist doing this right away. The result is pretty cool-looking IMO. It also seems to show that the evil score system is working as expected: the vast majority of the Internet is not being forced to pay, and in the isolated sections where a registration fee is required, prohibitively-large fees are very rare.

Here's the image (zoom in):
https://bitcointalk.org/banmap201510.png

Each pixel is a /24 address block (ie. each pixel represents 256 IP addresses). The colors are:
█ Zero or nearly zero evil
█ A small amount of evil
█ More
█ More
█ At this point you actually have to pay if you register an account in this block
█ More
█ More
█ More
█ Pretty high
█ A ton of evil, more than anyone is likely to pay

This is per block, so a single IP address could have an evil score requiring payment while its block still shows up as black here. A colored pixel indicates the evil score of a typical IP in that block.

Addresses are laid out in the standard way. So you can for example cross-reference with these maps: https://ant.isi.edu/address/

A /24 should almost never uniquely identify someone, but to be safe I randomly added, removed, and modified some of this data for plausible deniability.