Splitting a Botnet's Bandwidth Capacity

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July 26, 2006
Metaphorically speaking, I always say that the masssess of end users' bandwidth is reaching that of a mid size ISP, while the lack of incentives or plain simple awarenss is resulting in today's easily assembled botnets. Freaky perspective, but that's what I perceive the trade-off out of this major economic boost given the improved connectivity France Telecom is about to offer to its customers in 2007/2008 - Fiber at Home with 2.5Gbits/s download, and 1.2Gbits/s upload. As it looks like, an end user is gonna be worth a hundred more infected ones in the near future.

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