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NSA isn’t just building its own botnet. Since August 2007 it’s had a program called QUANTUMBOT dedicated to taking over the command-and-control systems of existing, but idle, bots. One top secret slide describes the program as “highly successful” with “over 140,000 bots co-opted.”
Computer security researcher Nicholas Weaver theorizes the agency could use bot software as a “deniable implant” – if you find your computer slaved to a known hacker botnet, you’re not likely to suspect the most sophisticated intelligence agency in the world is behind it. At least, not until now.
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