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Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site?
From: Jim Segrave <jes () nl demon net>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 11:57:33 +0100
On Thu 02 Dec 2004 (16:14 -0500), Steven Champeon wrote:
All I was pointing out was that, surprise, surprise, there already are. So why anyone thinks Lycos' botnet being hacked is /any different/ from /the current situation/ is utterly beyond my ken. Why would any spammer bother to hack Lycos' botnet? They /already have their own/.
Well, if I don't have one now, I could build my own botnet, which takes time and exposes significant risk over a lot of sites as I try to acquire them, or I could look at one site which, if I can compromise it, gives me instant access to a huge botnet. There are lots of places in the world where people/companies store dangerous waste. Some of these dumps are huge, most are small, all are dangerous. Now I read that someone who certainly ought to know better has decided to make yet another of the huge waste dumps, but that's apparently OK, because they exist anyway. -- Jim Segrave jes () nl demon net
Current thread:
- RE: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Hannigan, Martin (Dec 02)
- Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Brett (Dec 02)
- Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Rich Kulawiec (Dec 03)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Hannigan, Martin (Dec 02)
- RE: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Christopher L. Morrow (Dec 02)
- Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Steven Champeon (Dec 02)
- Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Christopher L. Morrow (Dec 02)
- Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Steven Champeon (Dec 02)
- Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Jim Segrave (Dec 03)
- Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Jim Segrave (Dec 03)
- Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Brett (Dec 02)
- Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Steven Champeon (Dec 02)
- Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Steven Champeon (Dec 02)
- zombies.. again - good! here are some actual facts [was: How many backbones ...] Gadi Evron (Dec 02)
- Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 02)
- Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Rich Kulawiec (Dec 02)
- what we do know about botnets - per your questions [was: How many backbone ...] Gadi Evron (Dec 02)