Talk:Botnet

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 another US case, a bot herder gets 30 months jail plus three years supervised release. [2] Sandy Harris 00:52, 10 September 2012 (UTC)