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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.
Lets not forget that this only affect windows users. So lets put the blaim where it belongs. With Bill Gates for writing a crap OS and the millions of users who keep on using it despite years and years of warnings on how bad it is.
I think that if you send a botnet controller to jail you should also send each and every owner of an infected pc to jail. Or just line them up so I can kick their ass.
Sorry I just can't get that upset about a victimless crime. Stupid windows users get their machines hosed but they obviously don't care or they would either properly maintain their machines OR get a real OS. Ad companies get screwed out of money but they obviously don't care or they would do better checks. Anyway do we care about spammers?
No, this is harmless stuff. I rather have the powers that be spend their time on real criminals. Not petty scammers like this.
Can I propose a web 3.0? Accessable only after passing an exam. First question: Do you run windows? Only passable answer: NO.
Of course web 3.0 would be very empty of chicks stripping on webcam but surely that is a prize worth paying?
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Don't hate the guy, remember he's just scamming the "Windows people"
//WR
It would be a shame if somebody shot him.
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?
You're a fucking moron. I don't know how you stupid OSS cocksmokes turn everything into OH NOES EVAL M$$$
Slashdot sucks