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The idea is, the botnets are in control of someone else. Who "owns" them. And some of those will rent "their property" for money, like they would legitimately o
by lukan 1y ago
The idea is, the botnets are in control of someone else. Who "owns" them. And some of those will rent "their property" for money, like they would legitimately own them.
- anamexis 1y agoOk, but that doesn’t change the fact that the price of renting them is completely disconnected from the price of bandwidth.
- lukan 1y agoDepends. The more the owners use their bots, or let others use their botnets, the more attention there is to them and the less useful the botnet is (either blacklisted IPs or owners noticing). And a little bit of malicious bandwidth is easy to hide, a lot not. So there is a price to bandwith to the criminal owner.
- anamexis 1y agoSure, but there’s still no link between what the botnet operator charges and what ISPs charge for bandwidth, that’s the point I’m trying to make. Because the botnet operator is not paying for the bandwidth, directly or indirectly.
- pixel_popping 1y agoit's not exactly, it depends on the provider, some services seem to display a cap in bandwidth usage.