A Trippy Visualization Charts the Internet's Growth Since 1997
To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. In November 2003, security researcher Barrett Lyon was finishing college at California State University, Sacramento, while working full time as a penetration tester—a hacker companies hire to find weaknesses in their own digital systems. At the beginning of each job, Lyon would do some basic reconnaissance of the customers infrastructure: “case the joint,” as he puts it. He realized he was essentially refining and repeatin...
Source: wired.com