On Nov 29, 2007 4:58 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:43:24 EST, Dude VanWinkle said: > > > Couldnt we pass legislation saying they could install a > > bot-removal-and-patching into the botnet as part of their takedown? > > Quick virus/worm history quiz: > > What well-known worm tried to do cleanup of the worm the week before, but > ended up doing more damage than the previous worm?
And that was in 2002ish? Coded by someone just learning/no experience? You are right. We should never attempt to use a botnet to take out itself again and just wait for the owners to buy new pc's. I will learn from a child's mistake and never attempt that. :-P <also> --Keith >> 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? No grasshopper, a removal using an existing package does not an installation make :-) >I can just see the anti-Big Brother posts on Digg now... What if we forced them to make sores open...err it open source? Peer reviewed like e-voting software in (denmark? sweden?)? Tell the Digg ppl. that the FBI/NSA/CIA/SGC already have control of the botnet and use it for covert ops. That'l learn 'em! Stupid idea I know, but hey: I already got the title for today.. -JP _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
