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Well there's some pretty amusing abuse. I recall there was a botnet a while back that got it's commands from a subreddit as well. Quite brilliant actually- who
by Vexs 11y ago
Well there's some pretty amusing abuse. I recall there was a botnet a while back that got it's commands from a subreddit as well. Quite brilliant actually- who would suspect reddit as a command server?
- dragontamer 11y ago> who would suspect reddit as a command server Everyone who used IRC as a command server from years past. It turns out that things useful for human communication tend to be useful for computer communication. Usenet, Email... hell... I'm sure BBS would have been used if modems were popular enough back in the day.
- hippich 11y agoactually, i personally witnessed C&C based on BBS :)
- dragontamer 11y agoSounds like a blogpost you should share with everyone :-)
- nissehulth 11y agoFidonet, in some obscure distributed echomail area? :)
- hippich 11y agoNo, actual BBS with software running, processing uploaded files, and software running on machines calling in at night. It was proof of concept and not malicious, but rather fun exercise :) It was too long time ago, the only thing I remember now is that BBS software was ProBoard, and bot was spread via demo .exe file using fidonet echo :)
- cmdrfred 11y agoEvery time I see an api for sending and receiving any type of file or text, I think botnet/building a secret chat system on top of it.
- stephengillie 11y agoCan we encode C&C commands into a blockchain?
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- sam_bwut 11y agoyes - its been done several times.
- SilasX 11y agoEvery time I see a service offering some resource as "unlimited", I think of using it as a free backend.
- pavel_lishin 11y agoI'm toying with the idea of building a client for Hipchat that would allow people to use encryption. Sorry, boss, the "offtopic-no-suits" room means what it says.
- mtw 11y ago"its"
- r-w 11y agoye's
- yellowapple 11y agoYe's what?