http://www.metafilter.com/tags/botnets Posts tagged with 'botnets' at MetaFilter. Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:28:44 -0800 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:28:44 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/64542/The%2DEconomics%2Dof%2DMalware <a href="http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/malware_biz.pdf">50 million computers are after your passwords, your money, and your processor time</a> (single PDF link). No wonder William Gibson's new novel is set in the present: the world is fully caught up with any future we could make up. The business of spamming, carding and phishing supports and runs off a peculiar distributed platform: a market-allocated collection of ad-hoc peer-to-peer content delivery networks running on hijacked browsing appliances' stolen processor cycles. <small>[<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/07/economics-of-malware.html#comment-9795">via BoingBoing comment</a>, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/45713/Herding-Zombies">previously on Metafilter</a>].</small> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.64542 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:28:44 -0800 botnets malware OMFG scary sciencefiction kandinski