OT: Hijacked botnet exposes startling online habits

[Stephen]

your are correct it would not have made you any better.

although it would be fun to hijack one and use it to install free
antivirus/anit-spamware and turn their dang updates on.

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Charles Jones
<charles.jones at ciscolearning.org> wrote:
> Stephen P Rufle wrote:
>> http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/252353/hijacked-botnet-exposes-startling-online-habits.html
>>
>> Thought it was interesting in regards to security. I did not read the
>> pdf linked in the article, but it would be interesting to know what the
>> breakdown by OS is :). Or does it even matter if most info is actually
>> gotten through website exploits of some type.
> Hijacking a botnet is pretty cool, I've done it myself a couple of
> times. However, my goal (which I succeeded in) was to deactivate as many
> of the bots as possible. These guys actually used the bots access to
> peoples PCs to peruse their emails and private information. The
> statistics they gathered are interesting, but was invading peoples
> privacy worth it? The botnets that I took control of had the same
> features (keylogger, etc), but if I had used those to invade peoples
> privacy (oh sorry, I mean "analyze messages"), wouldn't I have been no
> better than botnetters?
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Stephen