* Alex Eckelberry: > But malware researchers routinely deal with botnets for analysis > purposes. It would be considered a high crime indeed to allow a spambot > to actually send spam to the outside world, even for "testing" purposes.
I think you've missed the peer-reviewed paper for an ACM conference where the researchers did exactly that. It's probably not even an obscure group, I recognized the name of one of the coauthors (and I usually can't remember names). 8-/ _______________________________________________ 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.
