Storm, Nugache lead dangerous new botnet barrage

[coderman]

On Jan 17, 2008 3:23 AM, Tyler Durden <camera_lumina at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Makes me wonder whether there's some way to make peace with our new Spam
> overlords. Maybe get in on the action somehow. Seems to me the battle's very
> nearly lost if the botnet is functioning in a way that we can live with and
> that is very hard to tamper with.

it's actually not that difficult to tamper with (dht's are fragile
against coordinated malicious attackers, etc).  such a tampering is
pretty indiscriminate against the entire ring / overlay though, so no
one is anxious to try it :)