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by 16s 4843 days ago
Where is the source code to his bot? I don't see it. Maybe I over-looked it. Without seeing source code, I find this story hard to believe.

Also, who is the person behind it? The PGP key published is to an anon Gmail account internetcensus2012@mail.com.

If the story is true, the legal liability of doing this may be the reason the author is hiding his/her identity.
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chockablock 4843 days ago
"We will not release any source code of the bot or the backend because we consider the risk of abuse as too high"

A great deal of raw data is available for download over BitTorrent. It shouldn't be too hard to test the validity of the census results by verifying a random sample of the results.

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j_s 4843 days ago
Perhaps https://github.com/InternetCensus2012/InternetCensus2012/blo...
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