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It was just a random example that was intended to not point in an easily weaponized direction.
I figured it was both common and known in tech circles that Flash/Javascript executing botnets for ads existed and have for year(s):
http://www.spider.io/blog/2013/03/chameleon-botnet/
They were acquired by Google so it isn't just random blog spam:
http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/21/google-acquires-spider-io-t...
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It was just a random example that was intended to not point in an easily weaponized direction.
I figured it was both common and known in tech circles that Flash/Javascript executing botnets for ads existed and have for year(s):
http://www.spider.io/blog/2013/03/chameleon-botnet/
They were acquired by Google so it isn't just random blog spam:
http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/21/google-acquires-spider-io-t...