Comments on: Fighting Botnets with botnets http://www.mckeay.net/2008/04/23/fighting-botnets-with-botnets/ The views of one man on security, privacy and anything else that catches his attention Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:58:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Martin http://www.mckeay.net/2008/04/23/fighting-botnets-with-botnets/comment-page-1/#comment-1696 Martin Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:29:15 +0000 http://www.mckeay.net/2008/04/23/fighting-botnets-with-botnets/#comment-1696 Good point, Kurt. I also didn't see much in the paper about expanding to use home computers and suspect both concepts came from the New Scientists author. Martin Good point, Kurt. I also didn’t see much in the paper about expanding to use home computers and suspect both concepts came from the New Scientists author.

Martin

]]> By: kurt wismer http://www.mckeay.net/2008/04/23/fighting-botnets-with-botnets/comment-page-1/#comment-1695 kurt wismer Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:21:32 +0000 http://www.mckeay.net/2008/04/23/fighting-botnets-with-botnets/#comment-1695 calling phalanx a botnet is probably a mischaracterization... any network of computers performing a distributed task would be just as much a 'botnet' under that reasoning - i'm not sure seti@home or distributed.net should be lumped in with the likes of storm... it's subtle but i think there's a distinction to be made between a computer that's being remotely controlled in aggregate by a 3rd party and a computer that has software to perform a specific distributed task for a 3rd party... calling phalanx a botnet is probably a mischaracterization… any network of computers performing a distributed task would be just as much a ‘botnet’ under that reasoning – i’m not sure seti@home or distributed.net should be lumped in with the likes of storm…

it’s subtle but i think there’s a distinction to be made between a computer that’s being remotely controlled in aggregate by a 3rd party and a computer that has software to perform a specific distributed task for a 3rd party…

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