Botnets are too unreliable. They're only any good for coordinating DoS attacks and spamming, the sorts of attacks that don't require persistence of infrastructu

Botnets are too unreliable. They're only any good for coordinating DoS attacks and spamming, the sorts of attacks that don't require persistence of infrastructure. Tor is a common CnC and exfiltration vector. Nothing good will ever originate from a pseudoanonymous network developed for spycraft. We have enough problems with it that we shoot it on sight. The bigger problem is becoming abuse of cheap VPS and seedbox services (and anon VPNs) to launch attacks. $5 gets you a non-attributable box managed by an overseas entity with a gigabit link and an IP strategically located near your target to thwart geoip-based blocking. With that price point and features, why fuck around with botnets or Tor?