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What did he have to lose? The researcher had already penetrated his botnet, and if he was hidden behind an "anonymous proxy chain" then his identity wasn't at r

• allenbrunson 17y ago
  he had a lot to lose. the "reporter" could have been collecting subtle details, and trying to match them up with known real-world suspects. in his position, i certainly wouldn't have talked. but it's probably a lonely occupation, and who else are you going to talk to.
• gnosis 17y ago
  Everything he revealed could be used as evidence at his trial, if he was ever caught. Plus, much of what he revealed will be used to make the systems the botmaster tries to hack into more secure. At the very least, he's just making his own life harder, and possibly more dangerous, if some of what he said could be used to track him down.
• tetha 17y ago
  He gave out a lot of information. If I was in this scene, I would certainly say: too much information. WAY too much information. The researcher now knows a forum which contains up-to-date exploits of this scene, transactions of this scene. That is a boatload of knowledge, especially if one finds currently unknown exploits in there, or starts tracking the money by the transactions made on this forum. Furthermore, the botmaster gave out a lot of information about his illegal activities, so he pretty surely was very, very confident (I'd go as far as calling this overconfident) about his security. Sorry, but coming from this, this guy does not look like a real serious botmaster to me. I mean, if you make lots of money with bots, why whould you give out information about your exploits and your trades, making it easy for the government and security firms to stop you? That's just dumb.