That is pretty fascinating. It reminds me of an article I read some months back about one security specialist who got a sample of a bot, hacked into it, figure

That is pretty fascinating. It reminds me of an article I read some months back about one security specialist who got a sample of a bot, hacked into it, figured out how it communicated with the server via an IRC chat link and then created a "fake bot" which allowed him to spy on what the spammers were using the bots for (in this case to launch DDOS attacks). Eventually he made contact with the owner of the bot net and threatened him into shutting it down. It was some 13 year old kid.