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Re:Ask HN: Is it illegal to combat DDOS with a virus? by dragonbonheur on Saturday October 22, 2016 @11:55AM (#12769165)
You're essentially appropriating other people's computing resources for your own agenda, even if it's a good one, without the owner's permission. That's a crime.

I'd just suggest using the scanning portion to identify unsecured connections that should be added to a firewall's blacklist.

Maybe that could be a good SAAS service that would provide a blacklist of all unsecured IOT devices and printers to everyone interested for blacklisting purposes.

Re:Ask HN: Is it illegal to combat DDOS with a virus? by AznHisoka on Saturday October 22, 2016 @02:28PM (#12769896)
Don't most of these devices send an unique user agent indicating what type of device it's from?

If so why not block based on that?

Re:Ask HN: Is it illegal to combat DDOS with a virus? by RandomlyGen on Sunday October 23, 2016 @01:21AM (#12772094)
You'd still need to parse the UA, which takes resources. Plus the attackers have root. What's preventing them from spoofing the UA?