RE: FBI: 'Bot Roast II' Nets 8 Individuals

["Young, Keith" <Keith.Young () montgomerycountymd gov>]

> > > Maybe cleaning the infected machines would be a good idea as well..
> >
> > You win today's "That's just crazy talk" award. ;)

> Couldnt we pass legislation saying they could install a
> bot-removal-and-patching into the botnet as part of their takedown?
> Reduce the sentence if the botmaster helps clean up his mess?

And you would permit an FBI-sponsored software installation onto infected machines? What about, assuming that it would 
be infected,  your own?
 
I can just see the anti-Big Brother posts on Digg now...
 
--Keith

Keith Young, Security Official
Department of Technology Services
Montgomery County, Maryland
phone - (240) 777-2955 


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