Visualizing spam
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After yesterday's bauble with geoiplookup I was thinking about a more appropriate use of looking up the location of an IP. So what's better than visualizing the areas of the world where most spam comes from, I guessed.
Therefore I took a look at the IX's blacklist project NiX Spam and downloaded a snapshot of the blacklist's content (save, right click as... you've been warned!) which includes a maximum of 40.000 IP addresses. The plain text file comes with a timestamp and the blacklisted IP addresses.
After some more or less simple batch-processing I've had a file including all the relevant GeoIP ...