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Comment by klabb3

7 months ago

Just crossed my mind that perhaps lots of bot traffic is coming from botnets of unaware victims who downloaded a shitty game or similar, orchestrated by a malicious C&C server somewhere else. (There was a post about this type of malware recently.) Now, if you crash the victims machine, it’s complicated at least ethically, if not legally.

Though ethically it might be a good thing to shut down their infected computer, instead of keeping it running.