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Barry_Collins
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Researchers reveal just how much information a botnet gathers on its victims

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/252353/hija ... abits.html

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the idea of researchers rooting through stolen personal data from over 180,000 machines seems unlikely to impress privacy advocates.


...who would prefer to remain in blissful ignorance :lol:

Projects like this may be treading dangerous ground, but it has produced hard evidence of just how much of a security risk bot-nets and general ignorance can be.

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JJW009 wrote:
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the idea of researchers rooting through stolen personal data from over 180,000 machines seems unlikely to impress privacy advocates.


...who would prefer to remain in blissful ignorance :lol:

Projects like this may be treading dangerous ground, but it has produced hard evidence of just how much of a security risk bot-nets and general ignorance can be.


+1

At the end of the day, it'll be hard evidence like this that'll be required to get governments to take the threat and cost seriously...

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