Apparently the author of Mirai leaked the source code and even provided comments and build instructions. I found this a bit baffling. He seems immature and va

Apparently the author of Mirai leaked the source code and even provided comments and build instructions. I found this a bit baffling. He seems immature and vain, because his motive is apparently to taunt someone with how smart he is, but the code is indeed pretty awesome and educational. It's a little sad that commercial software is so ugly and that black hat software is elegant (though I guess it has to be, because it's under rather severe "environmental pressures"). https://github.com/jgamblin/Mirai-Source-Code/blob/master/ForumPost.md https://github.com/jgamblin/Mirai-Source-Code/blob/master/Fo... At first, I was also kinda shocked that it had this simplistic list of hard-coded user names and passwords (mentioned in the article). But I guess I've worked in the software industry long enough that it makes sense. Computers are so ubiquitous and on reflection it's not a surprise that you can pull down hundreds of thousands of machines with this technique!!! Can anyone shed light on the economics of releasing source code? I would think this would make your botnet much less valuable. Apparently someone found a vulnerability in his HTTP parser, which I don't think would have happened without the source code. So did the author shoot himself in the foot for reasons of pride, or is there something else going on? https://github.com/jgamblin/Mirai-Source-Code/blob/master/mirai/bot/scanner.c#L124 https://github.com/jgamblin/Mirai-Source-Code/blob/master/mi... // Set up passwords add_auth_entry("\x50\x4D\x4D\x56", "\x5A\x41\x11\x17\x13\x13", 10); // root xc3511 add_auth_entry("\x50\x4D\x4D\x56", "\x54\x4B\x58\x5A\x54", 9); // root vizxv ...