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Friendly Botnet
by Andrew McCaskey
It looks like that Juvenile Delinquent Bittorrent has some community service time lined up.
The University of Washington Phalanx system recruits a number of friendly computer systems to act as front ends for a computer that is subject to Distributed Denial of Service attacks.
The simulation showed 7500 such friendly installations could defend against a million machine botnet targeting a friendly installation for DDOS attack.
Although the initial idea was to organize these defender processes on machines owned by someone like Akamai or Limelight Networks, researchers suggested that a better way would be to include the code as a process in bittorrent clients. Doing a little good for the community while being used in other ways.
That is going to give throttling or shaping ISP’s like Comcast something to think about. It might just be to their advantage to let some of that bittorrent traffic thorough. It might be on a legitimate mission.
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