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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.

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.