• @[email protected]
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    -151 year ago

    Ummm … this is a bit disconcerting. I mean good the gov’t did something, but W O W on their ability to uninstall a program from privately-owned computers.

    “The investigation culminated late last week, when the FBI redirected the botnet’s internet traffic through computer servers controlled by the bureau and then issued commands to some infected computers to uninstall the malicious software.”

    • @czech
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      581 year ago

      Sounds to me like they hacked the bot net rather than used some universal backdoor into privately owned computers.

    • @3laws
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      121 year ago

      That’s not how any of this works

      • @Touching_Grass
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        21 year ago

        Right. Undercover FBI was all like “hey hackers, press alt-f4 to check for hidden agents” and they did and then all the zombie PCs shut down and the FBI all cheered

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        The botnet was the example of “this” being used maliciously, the government stopped it.

      • gullible
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        71 year ago

        This is minor compared to the extant cyberattack capacity of the US government. It’s a drop in the bucket. No, a fraction of a drop in the bucket.

      • @SheeEttin
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        51 year ago

        This article is literally about it being used maliciously

        • FuglyDuck
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          21 year ago

          I think they meant the FBI taking it over and not shutting it down.

          • @SheeEttin
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            41 year ago

            They took it over to shut it down.

            Which I’m fine with, if they had a warrant or court order or something. A real one, not a FISA court. But generally I don’t think they should do that.

            • FuglyDuck
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              -11 year ago

              I mean… you assume they shut it down. They said they did. 50/50 odds they didn’t give it over to the NSA or CIA or something.

      • @PunnyName
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        -11 year ago

        You got a malicious bot net?