Cudni
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Re: U.S. military to build botnet?
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Military bases could use outdated PCs as nodes on its "botnet," replacing their hard drives with a simple flash drives.
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Not sure in the context what would be the advantage. Easier to deploy, replace, wipe....?
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| said by Cudni  :...Not sure in the context what would be the advantage. Easier to deploy, replace, wipe....? Cudni Perhaps the idea would be to use and maintain a largely inert set of bots online as "placekeepers" with the overall botnet running and at the ready, but with the rapid ability to unplug that "inert" flash and immediately install the flash containing the war-time set of bots which would be the real deal. The war-time set could be kept locked away until needed, and there could be multiple war-time sets for customized application in specific scenarios upon higher command. Having special combat settings, IDs, etc is not an uncommon practice in the military arena.
In addition, updating and dissemination of the bots could be as easy as separately loading and distributing fresh flash keys... a process that would remain completely covert until the moment of activation online. That would allow any military computer anywhere to be covertly employed at any time in the botnet, merely by plugging in a flash.
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