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by grogenaut 35 days ago
s/stop/reduce/

I don't consider it a panacea.

People with rooted android phones are a drop in the bucket compared to people running botnets using programming languages. I'd be super happy if I could force people to use low end rooted android phones for botting. It'd massively decrease the problem versus a EC2 instance running at full tilt.

Getting and managing a fleet of rooted phones is not a trivial task.