Building a Legal Botnet in the Cloud
Two researchers have built a botnet using free anonymous accounts. They only collected 1,000 accounts, but there’s no reason this can’t scale to much larger numbers.
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JRD • July 25, 2014 12:22 PM
The care whether or not it’s legal when they want to give a talk about it and not get arrested afterwards.
Mat • July 25, 2014 2:45 PM
The litecoin profitability has dropped exponentially in the last few months. I’m not sure it is still worth the effort.
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Larkin • July 25, 2014 11:50 AM
Read the TOS. And since when do these characters care whether it’s legal or not.