Re: Spam King arrested

["Åke Nordin" <polymorpevz () gmail com>]

On 6/1/07, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:47:13 +0200, Åke Nordin said:
> > 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),
>
> Like hijacking a botnet is any more illegal than creating it in the first place?

I suppose anything would be okay as long as the cure doesn't kill
the patient, but some of us just might hesitate a little to approach
a legal position similar to the botnetters.

I am a chicken, I know ;^)

> Actually, I was wondering whether some *other* miscreant who doesn't have
> any moral objections to running a botnet would rather take over the already
> existing botnets that Soloway had set up, or grow their own miscreant botnet....

Doesn't that happen all the time? I've grown some (possibly very
distorted) mental image of those botnet farms where parts of the nets
succumb and revive in more or less random fashion, a little like John
Horton Conway's Game of Life, but the bots changing owners
(or connectedness) instead of states of life.

--
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."

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