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Raising a Botnet in Captivity (technologyreview.com)
30 points by dholowiski on Dec 19, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



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


"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.


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.


This has been posted a few times already.


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.

// edit: http://searchyc.com/Raising+a+Botnet+in+Captivity




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