How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site?

Fri Dec 3 10:52:13 UTC 2004

On Thu 02 Dec 2004 (15:21 -0500), Steven Champeon wrote:
> 
> on Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:56:29PM -0500, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
> > Possibly. What will happen if the Lycos botnet gets hijacked?
> > 
> > The conversations between the clients and the servers don't appear
> > to be keyed. If a million clients got owned, it would be the 
> > equivalent of an electronic Bubonic Plague with no antidote.
> 
> You mean, like the existing botnets we already know exist but are
> already under the control of spammers?
> 
> What's the difference? Why is everyone so upset about Lycos and nobody
> seems to be doing much of anything about the /existing botnets/, which
> conservative estimates[1] already put at anywhere from 1-3K per botnet
> to upwards of 1-5M hosts total[2]?

Some people regard what's being done with this system as being on
exactly the same level as any other cracker's work. Look up vigilante
some time and consider carefully whether or not this is applicable. 

-- 
Jim Segrave           jes at nl.demon.net