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Yes a bot can, and sophisticated bots do. At the same time it's much easier to write code that just died the bare minimum. Imagine you're a bot herder, if your
by c0wb0yc0d3r 3y ago
Yes a bot can, and sophisticated bots do.
At the same time it's much easier to write code that just died the bare minimum. Imagine you're a bot herder, if your bot net consists of stolen CPU cycles what difference does it make if your bots are slowed down. It doesn't cost you money.
- throw10920 3y ago> if your bot net consists of stolen CPU cycles what difference does it make if your bots are slowed down. It doesn't cost you money. This is wrong. It does cost you money - either directly, because you paid money to use someone else's botnet, or as an opportunity cost, in that you can't use your bots on as many targets.