tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3200930.post3840939807189579666..comments2024-02-26T00:36:28.362-08:00Comments on Epeus' epigone: Will botnets compete with Amazon S3?Kevin Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18338939297948690534noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3200930.post-62672781091700900812007-09-02T12:41:00.000-07:002007-09-02T12:41:00.000-07:00I dunno.Botnets, by definition, are parasitic infe...I dunno.<BR/><BR/>Botnets, by definition, are parasitic infections on legitimate users' machines; in many jurisdictions they're illegal. (And where they're not illegal, they should be!)<BR/><BR/>What customers would be crazy enough to trust massive quantities of their data to something so fragile, in legal terms?<BR/><BR/>Spammers nowadays can store all their important data on Command-and-Control servers, off the botnet entirely; as botnet nodes are shut down, killed off, or filtered, it doesn't affect the *data* in any way-- just the output volume. That's proven to be a key part of the botnet design, as far as I can tell, and I think there's a good reason for it.<BR/><BR/>BTW, in the past we have seen spammers attempting to justify a semi-legal spam-proxying app as instead being a form of distributed computation software -- ie. something their users installed through their own free will. However, it became clear they were talking bullshit -- in fact their software was just plain old malware, iirc, and the users hadn't opted in at all.Justin Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16955170493368020909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3200930.post-12432930590888399092007-09-02T09:33:00.000-07:002007-09-02T09:33:00.000-07:00no sla, no trust metric. pretty evil i'd say. :)no sla, no trust metric. pretty evil i'd say. :)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14152013030828058888noreply@blogger.com