Re: FBI: 'Bot Roast II' Nets 8 Individuals

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On Nov 29, 2007 4:58 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:43:24 EST, Dude VanWinkle said:
>
> > Couldnt we pass legislation saying they could install a
> > bot-removal-and-patching into the botnet as part of their takedown?
>
> Quick virus/worm history quiz:
>
> What well-known worm tried to do cleanup of the worm the week before, but
> ended up doing more damage than the previous worm?


And that was in 2002ish? Coded by someone just learning/no experience?

You are right. We should never attempt to use a botnet to take out
itself again and just wait for the owners to buy new pc's. I will
learn from a child's mistake and never attempt that.

:-P

<also>
--Keith
> > Couldnt we pass legislation saying they could install a
> > bot-removal-and-patching into the botnet as part of their takedown?
> > Reduce the sentence if the botmaster helps clean up his mess?

> And you would permit an FBI-sponsored software installation onto
infected machines?
> What about, assuming that it would be infected,  your own?

No grasshopper, a removal using an existing package does not an
installation make :-)

> I can just see the anti-Big Brother posts on Digg now...

What if we forced them to make sores open...err it open source? Peer
reviewed like e-voting software in (denmark? sweden?)?

Tell the Digg ppl. that the FBI/NSA/CIA/SGC already have control of
the botnet and use it for covert ops. That'l learn 'em!

Stupid idea I know, but hey: I already got the title for today..


-JP
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