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New Botnet Dwarfs Storm
ancientribe writes "Storm is no longer the world's largest botnet: Researchers at Damballa have discovered Kraken, a botnet of 400,000 zombies — twice the size of Storm. But even more disturbing is that it has infected machines at 50 of the Fortune 500, and is undetectable in over 80 percent of machines running antivirus software. Kraken appears to be evading detection by a combination of clever obfuscation techniques that hinder its detection and analysis by researchers."
Which honestly is why I have switched to OSX for ANYTHING that I do that has my financial and important information on them. My taxes this year was done with TaxCut on OSX.
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I still use windows for my mediaPC and gaming but it will never again be used for important tasks that contain my private information.
I also was looking for an additional justification to get the wife to approve me dropping $2800 on a new Mac Tower
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
This happens every time a story likie this one pops up.
Make Linux and it's associated applications easier for average users to use and they will use. The average computer person does not want to spend time dealing with FLOSS crapware that is not as good as what is available on Windows. They don't want to have to spend hours, days, weeks, or (in some cases) months trying to get something to work that "just works" under Windows. They don't want to have to open a terminal and deal with the command line to do anything. (There is a reason GUIs are so ubiquitous)
Give the users what they want or STFU.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
I used it yesterday. I am informed. You are the dumbass for not knowing that you are not an average user.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
"The government" is a really nice abstract term, perfect for conspiracies.
...) the government itself is not above the law.
The "government", aka the FBI, the NSA, etc, do not randomly break into machines.
What they do do, they do with the permission of the majority of elected representatives and thus, by proxy, with your permission.
The basic fact of government in a democracy is that, unlike in every other system of government (islamic, communist, dictatorship,
If you have proof of your claim, take it to the courts and the government WILL modify it's behavior.
Now muslim governments, or china's government, or other foreign governments will have no qualms whatsoever using these networks, and you have no legal recourse. That's what sovereignty means. Or they may buy these networks from criminals like spammers do.
Also criminals do this, you *may* have legal recourse, but they ignore it (that's the definition of the word criminal). So unless your government can use violence against said criminals, you're out of luck. Now *that* is the function of the FBI.
Or both of these may buy from eachother (like e.g. afghani drug cartels buying immunity from Chinese provincial govt. or from the taliban, you see islamic justice *is* for sale (price for murder : 200 camels, or 1 (male) slave, or 2 female slaves, payable to the victim's family, and yes you'd think this was a joke, it's not))