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Re: Spam King arrested
From: "Åke Nordin" <polymorpevz () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 20:47:13 +0200
On 6/1/07, Steve Manzuik <smanzuik () juniper net> wrote:
> Anybody know if the malware Soloway used to build his spambot networks > is subject to fairly easy takeover by somebody else? Not sure but if a copy of the malware is available it wouldn't be too hard for one to take a peek and figure out how to gain control of the botnet.
The least of the problems involved with that scenario are probably the technological ones. I assume one puts h{im|er}self in a rather delicate legal position in most western countries if one would hijack such a botnet (and thus implicitly the systems under it's control), since there would be a rather high probability that a few of the affected systems were owned and/or operated by legal bodies in the same jurisdiction. I reckon only LEAs operating under unusually permissive legal restrictions would have any chance to get away with it. -- Åke Nordin Unix/net geek, Netia.se consultant, Stacken member. Damian Conway: "The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity." _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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