[CJ Wolf]

sorry but technically, this smells like morons with new tools that don't know what they are doing.

[FastCoyote]

I think this stuff is hitting my commercial installation. And it has been clogging the system.

[nhoward14]

These strange packets must be Neo running around the Matrix.

[supercat]

I suspect in time, someone with a disassembler will be able to figure out what this code is up to.

Imagine, though, that we were all using Palladium machines. Where would we be then?

[this_ol_patriot]

Hacker Found!!

Helen the Hacked.
An ugly development...origin unknown

[Ciexyz]

Verrrry inneresting.

[BiffWondercat]

"When the Borg come, they'll come in force. They don't do anything piecemeal"

Maybe a "outsourced IT worker"?

[aruanan]

Mysterious Net traffic Spurs Code Hunt

Maybe the net has gotten complex enough that it is able to support a neural net consciousness and what they're detecting is its thoughts.

[SpaceBar]

It's probably a stealth searchbot from a communist country's military intelligence apparatus, looking for vulnerabilities and sensitive information of any kind. Such information could be used for a wide range of criminal or terrorist activities.

[ChefKeith]

It must be the "greys" getting revenge for Roswell.

or maybe it is the "father of the internet" (gore)

[FairOpinion]

Ping -- seems to be an update to the earlier thread about the "mysterious trojan horse" article posted in the thread at:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/930838/posts?q=1&&page=51