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Are Botnets Run by Spy Agencies?

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 16 May, 2008 to the technology subset

Are Botnets Run by Spy Agencies? In other words is Big Brother indeed watching? But consider this - having remote control of millions of PCs, and a large percentage of the world's PCs seems like a very tempting target for the world's various intelligence agencies. Most zombies are used for external purposes, but it would be easy to have them searching their own disk drives for interesting documents, and sniffing their ... Read full entry

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