On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Steven Champeon wrote:
on Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:56:29PM -0500, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
Possibly. What will happen if the Lycos botnet gets hijacked?
The conversations between the clients and the servers don't appear to be keyed. If a million clients got owned, it would be the equivalent of an electronic Bubonic Plague with no antidote.
You mean, like the existing botnets we already know exist but are already under the control of spammers?
What's the difference? Why is everyone so upset about Lycos and nobody seems to be doing much of anything about the /existing botnets/, which conservative estimates[1] already put at anywhere from 1-3K per botnet to upwards of 1-5M hosts total[2]?
perhaps the difference is 'reponsible people' don't go out and recruit botnets... Lycos, as a corporate entity with it's business model dependent upon the health and wellbeing of the Internet would try to be 'responsible', or so I would have thought. arguing that there are murderers and rapists out there and that 'nothing is being done' is hardly reason to become one yourself. -Chris