[–] 19363860? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The SEC can open an investigation into botnets on google and amazon
You don't know what botnets are.
A "botnet" is a series of computers all infected with a virus that basically makes them act as a network. One computer (not infected) can send out commands to the network, which they all follow.
So if you write a virus that sends a request to a server you own every day and checks to see if there's command to run, then embed that virus into a cracked copy of a recent game, and put the cracked game up on a torrent site, once a bunch of people download it you've got a botnet. Common uses of a botnet would be "mine bitcoin" or "send spam".
What the veritas video describes google doing has absolutely nothing to do with botnets. Additionally, google and amazon have tremendous resources and colossal server farms. You create botnets to amass computing power. They don't need botnets, they can just dump money into a server farm to get enough computing power to do whatever they want.
you say actionable things and fight smart
Ok well whenever you're ready to do either of those things you can start.
[–] Diogenes_The_Cynic ago
Another ccmmon use of a botnet is fake page refreshing for ad revenue or to inflate website hits. You know this. Amazon without a doubt lets bots generate click-throughs.
[–] 19390031? ago
Why would anyone do that instead of writing a script to automate a headless browser? You'd have to write such a script anyway since using a full GUI browser would alert the target machine's user.
Or why not use a click farm? That way the target machine is complicit and there's less risk of being found out.
A botnet may be the worst possible solution for your use case.