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Display Botnets with Google Maps

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I was testing my French a bit by following the instructions of Cartographier un botnet via GoogleMaps, found on the Orange Business Services le blog Sécurité.

Most of it is fairly straightforward. The goal is to convert IPs to a geographic chart, handy for my upcoming presentations. It should look something like this:

I had a little trouble with a few phrases, like here:

Script de géolocalisation et génération d’un fichier XML en sortie
Maintenant ça ne rigole plus : On rentre dans le cœur du sujet. Le script python va tout d’abord ouvrir le fichier texte contenant les adresses IP et va créer une table avec toutes les adresses IP, en prenant soin d’enlever celles qui sont éventuellement en double.

“Now the laughing ends : as we get to the heart of things”? Not sure I have that right, but I guess it doesn’t really matter. The technical details are clear enough. And after a while, it felt like I was catching on; it started to look just like English.

A vous de vous débrouiller sur ce coup là. Perso, sous un Linux Ubuntu c’était “finger in the noze”.

Oh, that IS English.

Sometimes when I use Ubuntu, it’s like finger in the nose. Yes, I know exactly what they mean. Apple’s OSX is more like finger in the eye and Windows…well, let’s just not talk about that, especially in French.

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Drivers Slow for Decoy Police Women (in Skirts)

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A couple years ago I wrote about skirts and driving in Uganda. Women were banned from dressing a certain way because they were said to be distracting drivers. Apparently the Czech Republic did not get the same results from their study.

The Huffington Post has posted pictures (of course) in a story called Cardboard Police In Miniskirts Slow Traffic

Authorities say that life-sized cardboards of female police officers in miniskirts placed alongside roads have managed to slow down speeding drivers in several central Czech towns.

There is snow on the ground and she is wearing a miniskirt? Obviously a decoy. Ah, but there I go thinking again. I forgot for a minute what the Ugandan ethics and integrity minister said about risk.

“What’s wrong with a miniskirt? You can cause an accident because some of our people are weak mentally,” he said.

The Czech might say that is exactly what is right with a miniskirt. Uganda just should have required a police vest and hat be worn with a miniskirt; they then would have been able to use attention from the drivers to prompt them to use caution.