Stories indexed with the term ‘Arbor Networks’

At its Sept. 19, 2011 meeting, the Ann Arbor city council voted to approve one tax abatement and to set a public hearing for another.

Getting approval for its request for a tax abatement was Picometrix LLC, located at 2925 Boardwalk in Ann Arbor. Picometrix is a supplier of high-speed optical receivers.

The 5-year abatement would apply to $2,434,882 worth of personal property that Picometrix is acquiring. From the application for abatement: “Due to the projected increase in production volume, the company will need to purchase assets to maximize production and support added staffing.”

The list of personal property included in the application ranges from garden-variety desks and cubicles to digital oscilloscopes and laser beam profilers. The abatement will reduce the company’s annual tax … [Full Story]

On Thursday morning, when The Chronicle used a front-door exploit on Arbor Networks’ State Street offices (i.e., went to visit the company), Jose Nazario made his computer screen display a steady vertical scroll of numerical strings separated with periods, one string per line, each in formats like 99.999.999.999.

The strings were recognizable as IP addresses (the numerical identification of a machine connected to the internet), but they were flying past fast enough that it wasn’t possible to visually track an individual number from the bottom of the screen to the top. That’s not surprising at  6.1 million lines per hour.

But who,  exactly, is Jose Nazario, and what’s he doing with screen-upon-screen full of IP addresses?

Is this actually the work of some mysterious cabal? Why yes, it actually is – even if “mysterious” overstates the case a little, given that the work, underway a couple of months prior, was announced on Feb. 12. [Full Story]