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Interview with a Botmaster
An anonymous reader writes "The Washington Post is running a fascinating feature profiling a couple of botnet operators who make thousands of dollars each month installing adware on machines they infect. This is by far the most detailed examination of this issue I've seen so far -- and includes an interview with the CEO of 180Solutions, as well as interviews with some of the botmasters' victims. From the story: 'Most days, I just sit at home and chat online while I make money,' 0x80 says. 'I get one check like every 15 days in the mail for a few hundred bucks, and a buncha others I get from banks in Canada every 30 days.' He says his work earns him an average of $6,800 per month, although he's made as much as $10,000. Not bad money for a high school dropout.'"
Like most other high school dropouts, he'll wind up spending most of his days in jail.
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
It would be a shame if somebody shot him. True, they'd better break his fingers one by one before they'd kill that guy. Heck, just dont kill him but send him to iraq. Fodder.
Hivemind harvest in progress..
Yeah, because that 'give us 10%% of all you make' is for the parishioner's salvation. Or is it God that is the extortionist?