| Gotta say, that's pretty interesting. I've become very curious recently about "The Botnet" and just exactly what it is, how it is maintained and what resources it relies on/consumes ... which might be ignorance? Some purists may be against my referring to what is a distributed and loosely organised menagerie of differently compromised systems as a singular entity, but I find it inspiring to think of this as the common enemy that binds the internet civilisation. I have heard many a deeply fascinating story about the exploits of this web marauder, such as the well known Estonia ddos:
http://tinyurl.com/3ashwk as well as theories that dispute the controlling agents of the botnet, arguing for and against the autonomy of "The Botnet" itself. With some stating it's defence mechanisms mirror those of immune systems or other organic systems. (not sure where my reference is for that one) With this being such a massive force on the internet, what do people know of vigilante justice that seeks to control "The Botnet"? I find it hard to believe that the old-school "white hat hackers" would allow themselves to be pushed aside by this mother of all script kiddies! I had a quick look around and all I could find was this interesting little morsel:
http://tinyurl.com/de4t5l essentially a distributed proxy shield that (if I'm not mistaken) inverts the tor architecture and incorporates a relatively expensive authorisation to perturb the activity of a botnet attack on a particular server. But what I'm really looking for is a legitimate attempt to set up some distributed system to attack the botnet itself? just some food for thought, I thought. |