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This is brilliant...I am glad someone finally ran with it. I wrote a blog post about this almost 2 years ago - http://marcgayle.com/2010/01/08/a-legal-botnet-bi

This is brilliant...I am glad someone finally ran with it. I wrote a blog post about this almost 2 years ago - http://marcgayle.com/2010/01/08/a-legal-botnet-billion-dollar-startup-idea http://marcgayle.com/2010/01/08/a-legal-botnet-billion-dolla... There are many applications for this - including fighting DDOS attacks. There are still huge technical challenges with that particular application, but as I understand it...the only way to fight a DDOS is to a) get bigger guns, or b) lie down and take your raping. Having something like this, can (in theory) give you bigger guns. Do you guys pay the people who have idle resources?

Jach 14y ago
> including fighting DDOS attacks Or cheaply launching them. For a mere $100 you get 100,000 machines for an hour, that's more than enough to cause problems for a sad number of websites out there. Edit: Or not, given that all traffic goes through a centralized node.
- marcamillion 14y ago
  Yeh....was about to say that I doubt that given the architecture. The difference is that there is a for-profit company that controls the nodes, so I doubt they would allow that. Completely different than a real botnet where the botnet owner controls everything.
marcamillion 14y ago
Something else just occurred to me....by not paying users to get axs to their computers, it removes the business model headache of squabbling over revenue and violating ISP TOS. I believe it is against most TOS for most (if not all) ISPs for a consumer to resell their inet axs. That was another consideration that I looked at two years ago - which makes the model not as attractive. Although, I imagine that the holy grail is actually reaching a place where users are making money from their inet connection - I am sure that will drive adoption at an increasing rate.

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This is brilliant...I am glad someone finally ran with it. I wrote a blog post about this almost 2 years ago - http://marcgayle.com/2010/01/08/a-legal-botnet-bi

by marcamillion 14y ago

Jach 14y ago
> including fighting DDOS attacks Or cheaply launching them. For a mere $100 you get 100,000 machines for an hour, that's more than enough to cause problems for a sad number of websites out there. Edit: Or not, given that all traffic goes through a centralized node.
- marcamillion 14y ago
  Yeh....was about to say that I doubt that given the architecture. The difference is that there is a for-profit company that controls the nodes, so I doubt they would allow that. Completely different than a real botnet where the botnet owner controls everything.
marcamillion 14y ago
Something else just occurred to me....by not paying users to get axs to their computers, it removes the business model headache of squabbling over revenue and violating ISP TOS. I believe it is against most TOS for most (if not all) ISPs for a consumer to resell their inet axs. That was another consideration that I looked at two years ago - which makes the model not as attractive. Although, I imagine that the holy grail is actually reaching a place where users are making money from their inet connection - I am sure that will drive adoption at an increasing rate.