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. The views expressed on this blog do not reflect the views of my employer or anyone other than myself. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:45:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= 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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