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[–] Diogenes_The_Cynic 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The SEC can open an investigation into botnets on google and amazon defrauding investors and advertising agencies. They knowingly lied about hits but nobody has done anything about it yet.

In general, you don't fight stupidly, asking for the unlikely, you say actionable things and fight smart.

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[–] 19363860? 0 points 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.