FBI's Bot Roast II Sees Great Success

coondoggie passed us another Network World link, this one discussing the FBI's newest offensive against botnets. They're calling it Operation Bot Roast II. Apparently it's already been quite successful, leading to indictments, search warrants, and the uncovering of some '$20 million in economic loss. writes "Today, botnets are the weapon of choice of cyber criminals. They seek to conceal their criminal activities by using third party computers as vehicles for their crimes. In Bot Roast II, we see the diverse and complex nature of crimes that are being committed through the use of botnets," said FBI Director Robert S. Mueller. "Despite this enormous challenge, we will continue to be aggressive in finding those responsible for attempting to exploit unknowing Internet users." I can't help but think, though: how many more of these things are out there that this 'sting' didn't touch?

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Re:The glass is half empty?

[ScentCone]

... harder drugs at 21 ... Tax the lot of it and let transparent companies take control of the market and you eliminate virtually all of the violence associated with the drug trade.

Will you also be subsidizing other people's consumption of those drugs, and for that matter the rest of their not-as- or non-productive lives as they consume them? With other people's tax dollars? Because if you expect that people are still going to have to pay for what they consume, many of those over-21-year-olds that you'd be happy to see on heroin are still going to resort to crime in order to pay for their existence. Or, maybe you think that entitlements (that other big drug) should take care of their food, rent, transporation, etc? How do you see that working, exactly? Does that person also get health care, including the use of million-dollar diagnostic equipment, when they present with conditions that are far harder to figure out once you know they're full of nice, legal, hard drugs all the time?