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It substantially changes the economics of bots - cheap for a person, expensive for a person running 10,000 bots that want to appear legitimate.
by ericd 4y ago
It substantially changes the economics of bots - cheap for a person, expensive for a person running 10,000 bots that want to appear legitimate.
- oneeyedpigeon 4y agoExpensive for a person running 10,000 bots, irrelevant to a hostile nation doing the same.
- TeMPOraL 4y agoAlmost everything is irrelevant to a hostile nation state, because by its very nature it can outspend your security if it cares badly enough. In the immortal words of James Mickens[0], "If your adversary is the Mossad, YOU’RE GONNA DIE AND THERE’S NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT." Raising the costs has a general effect of cutting out people who do not care enough to pay - be it individuals, companies, or governments. ---- [0] - https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
- comboy 4y agoI think the expensive part comes mostly from the part that it is hard to make anonymous payment. Sending money is kind of a verification (unless dogecoin is accepted ;) ). I still have no clue why bots would care to have it though, since there is obviously a very high percentage of people who don't.
- uoaei 4y agoSo you've limited the success of bot farms only to the set of state actors. Yay, such a great improvement...
- ericd 4y agoWell yeah, that actually is. Most spammers aren’t government backed.