RE: Centralized server information gathering alternatives / The Bizex worm

["J.A. Terranson" <measl () mfn org>]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh] wrote:

> > Most worms today that infect machines try to report back to centralized
> > servers specified by the creator (to upload/download data).  The only
> > problem with this approach is that centralized servers can be shut down to
> > prevent the spread of the worm and cease information gathering.  Now, what
> > would happen if worms were "smarter" and instead utilized the BitTorrent
> > networks?  With a small server client built into the worm payload and
> > 50,000-100,000 infected machines, the author(s) (and even the worm itself)
> > now has access to the data being harvested without the crutch of a single
> > (or a few) predetermined access points.  Do you guys think this approach
> > will be utilized in the more advanced worms of tomorrow?

Ideally, they would utilize a distributed and inherently anonymized system,
such as FreeNet: Java - platform independence; the bits in the datastream are
completely distributed (no server that can be whacked) over the whole
network, and no backward trace liabilities.

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