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== Positive botnet application? == | |||
I would not call a company using its own PCs for testing a "botnet", but this Computer World story does: | |||
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9174539/Microsoft_runs_fuzzing_botnet_finds_1_800_Office_bugs | |||
:In Network World, I believe, there was an article on cloud networks suggesting the Conficker botnet had more hosts than Google or Amazon, and thus the largest cloud computing network. Is that a negative cloud application? Clearly, there are definition problems in distributed computing! [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 13:31, 2 April 2010 (UTC) | |||
==Just broadband?== | |||
Should we say [[broadband]] alone, rather than singling out ADSL? I regard ADSL as a declining technology. [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 12:18, 29 April 2010 (UTC) | |||
:yes. [[User:Sandy Harris|Sandy Harris]] 14:19, 29 April 2010 (UTC) | |||
==How to manage effects?== | |||
DDOS is certainly a botnet effect, but so is spamming and the like. Should there be an effects and economics section? [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 12:18, 29 April 2010 (UTC) | |||
: I think this certainly could and probably should be a much longer article in several ways. It could expand on the uses of botnets, on defenses, on the history, on the business of selling botnet services, legal precedents, ... I'm not likely to write much of that, would certainly urge anyone who can contribute to do so. [[User:Sandy Harris|Sandy Harris]] 15:29, 29 April 2010 (UTC) | |||
== Botnet writer sentenced == | |||
He got four years from an Armenian court [http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/425475/bredolab_botnet_author_sentenced_4_years_prison_armenia/]. [[User:Sandy Harris|Sandy Harris]] 01:47, 25 May 2012 (UTC) | |||
: In a US case, a bot herder gets 30 months jail plus three years supervised release. [http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19517316] [[User:Sandy Harris|Sandy Harris]] 00:52, 10 September 2012 (UTC) | |||
Latest revision as of 19:03, 9 September 2012
Positive botnet application?
I would not call a company using its own PCs for testing a "botnet", but this Computer World story does: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9174539/Microsoft_runs_fuzzing_botnet_finds_1_800_Office_bugs
- In Network World, I believe, there was an article on cloud networks suggesting the Conficker botnet had more hosts than Google or Amazon, and thus the largest cloud computing network. Is that a negative cloud application? Clearly, there are definition problems in distributed computing! Howard C. Berkowitz 13:31, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Just broadband?
Should we say broadband alone, rather than singling out ADSL? I regard ADSL as a declining technology. Howard C. Berkowitz 12:18, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
- yes. Sandy Harris 14:19, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
How to manage effects?
DDOS is certainly a botnet effect, but so is spamming and the like. Should there be an effects and economics section? Howard C. Berkowitz 12:18, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
- I think this certainly could and probably should be a much longer article in several ways. It could expand on the uses of botnets, on defenses, on the history, on the business of selling botnet services, legal precedents, ... I'm not likely to write much of that, would certainly urge anyone who can contribute to do so. Sandy Harris 15:29, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Botnet writer sentenced
He got four years from an Armenian court [1]. Sandy Harris 01:47, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
- In a US case, a bot herder gets 30 months jail plus three years supervised release. [2] Sandy Harris 00:52, 10 September 2012 (UTC)