Do you want to know how paranoid the Chinese government is? Remember the downing of the U.S. surveillance aircraft early in the Bush administration? Like many FReepers I was suggesting some very harsh "measures" at the time. I had a free version of Zone Alarm that scanned for port probes also. Within minutes I started getting a huge volume of port probes. Zone Alarm allowed you to trace them at that time. They were all coming from Asian servers. Normally I would get one or two a day from U.S. universities. I was getting one every few minutes after posting my "suggestions."Interesting. But how would they get your IP? That would be kind of freaky if they were sitting on your or FR's subnet with a packet sniffer.When you worry about what a retired carpenter in the Rocky Mountains is saying about your country halfway around the world you've got some real psychological problems.
I don't know enough about computers to tell you. I'm just a point-and-clicker. All I know is that within 30 - 40 minutes of posting some hyperbolic "glass parking lot" type challenges I was being port scanned like crazy and they traced back to Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China. What should/would I make of that?