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Yes. That's about right but I am afraid that the lazy's are gonna miss out on the intricate command & control hierarchy of a botnet and how the researchers inje
by cowmoo 18y ago
Yes. That's about right but I am afraid that the lazy's are gonna miss out on the intricate command & control hierarchy of a botnet and how the researchers injected their machines within the command & control channel to effectively control a portion of the botnet. I am quite surprised about the level of sophistication these botnets are - well ... I guess that programmers in Russia are smarter than their U.S counterparts.
The only thing that we should be weary of (or some of us happy about) is the fact that with this paper, somebody could go ahead and employ the botnet to do their evil bidding instead of the botnet's owner's original evil bidding. Talk about what comes around goes around!
- ph0rque 18y ago> somebody could go ahead and employ the botnet to do their evil bidding... why not good bidding?
- josefresco 18y agoRussian programmers are not smarter, they're just willing to do things like this without feeling like they're the scum-of-the-earth like most Americans would. In Russia they don't believe in black/white, right/wrong like we do here in America, there's about an 80% gray area in between which means things like SPAM, Botnets and taking money from suckers is acceptable (notice I didn't say right or wrong)
- asdflkj 18y agoActually, they believe strongly in black/white and right/wrong in Russia, but within a tighter social circle. This difference between Russia and the West is of degree, not of kind. Most Americans care little about how their actions affect people in the third world, for example.