[Vexs]

Well there's some pretty amusing abuse. I recall there was a botnet a while back that got it's commands from a subreddit as well. Quite brilliant actually- who would suspect reddit as a command server?

[dragontamer]

> who would suspect reddit as a command server

Everyone who used IRC as a command server from years past. It turns out that things useful for human communication tend to be useful for computer communication.

Usenet, Email... hell... I'm sure BBS would have been used if modems were popular enough back in the day.

[cmdrfred]

Every time I see an api for sending and receiving any type of file or text, I think botnet/building a secret chat system on top of it.

[SilasX]

Every time I see a service offering some resource as "unlimited", I think of using it as a free backend.

[cmdrfred]

me too, I have about 3tb of stuff from the Napster days and I've always wanted to upload it all somewhere so I can stream it on my phone.

[_lce0]

google photos!!

encode your info as bits in the image ;)

[stephengillie]

Can we encode C&C commands into a blockchain?

[sam_bwut]

yes - its been done several times.

[pavel_lishin]

I'm toying with the idea of building a client for Hipchat that would allow people to use encryption. Sorry, boss, the "offtopic-no-suits" room means what it says.

[hippich]

actually, i personally witnessed C&C based on BBS :)

[dragontamer]

Sounds like a blogpost you should share with everyone :-)

[nissehulth]

Fidonet, in some obscure distributed echomail area? :)

[hippich]

No, actual BBS with software running, processing uploaded files, and software running on machines calling in at night. It was proof of concept and not malicious, but rather fun exercise :) It was too long time ago, the only thing I remember now is that BBS software was ProBoard, and bot was spread via demo .exe file using fidonet echo :)

[mtw]

"its"

[r-w]

ye's

[yellowapple]

Ye's what?