Raising a Botnet in Captivity

Posted by dholowiski on Sunday December 19, 2010 @01:41PM
from the technologyreview.com dept.

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/26938/?p1=A2

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Re:Raising a Botnet in Captivity by reemrevnivek on Sunday December 19, 2010 @03:03PM (#2022376)

This was an XKCD in 2007: http://xkcd.com/350/

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Re:Raising a Botnet in Captivity by whatevermatt on Sunday December 19, 2010 @04:06PM (#2022492)

"To our knowledge, this is the first such realistic experiment."

I find it hard to believe that nobody has tried this before in a closed lab setting. Perhaps the scale (3000 installs on 98 machines) is the differentiating factor. Or perhaps the others were kept quiet.

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Re:Raising a Botnet in Captivity by benkant on Monday December 20, 2010 @02:58AM (#2023702)

I read this wondering why it's news. I'm certain this has been done numerous times before. Unfortunately I don't have any links to back that up.

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Re:Raising a Botnet in Captivity by a904guy on Sunday December 19, 2010 @02:25PM (#2022298)

This has been posted a few times already.

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Re:Raising a Botnet in Captivity by Zev on Sunday December 19, 2010 @02:32PM (#2022310)

Its been posted twice in the past two days, neither story getting attention, a single comment or more than one upvote between the two stories combined. I think a repost is OK here.

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