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If people come to rely on Google Trends and its models, then the operators of, say, a large bot-net could generate a bunch of bogus searches to create the appearance of a fake recovery in, say, retail sales.
Open Source Forecasting, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Coupled into a robot network, or bot-net, with say ten thousand or a hundred thousand other computers, it can do thousands of times more damage.
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Um, we can address spam and the other manifestations of MAFIA@home by going after the mobsters who run the zombie bot-net.
Free? 2006
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We think that every criminal hacker, cracker, virus and Trojan writer and bot-net master on the planet should be rounded up, thrown into a giant vat of dog poop, and played Chris de Burgh's Greatest Hits on an infinite loop until they draw their final dungy breath.
The Inquirer 2010
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We think that every criminal hacker, cracker, virus and Trojan writer and bot-net master on the planet should be rounded up, thrown into a giant vat of dog poop, and played Chris de Burgh's Greatest Hits on an infinite loop until they draw their final dungy breath.
The Inquirer 2010
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Imagine the swiftness with which one posing as a popular person could create a rapidly growing bot-net using Twitter.
WebmasterRadio.FM 2010
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With just two email addresses, they set the bot-net to send each address 50 mails.
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Click used a readily available piece of software (which wasn't named) to create the bot-net, which is basically just a network of computers, none of them aware of their function.
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As a secondary test, the bot-net attempted a Distributed Denial of Service (DDos) against a friendly target that was expecting it, the security company Prevx.
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Once the worm infects a computer it hooks up with a bot-net (robotic network) of infected computers and is programed to start up by a remote command and start doing it's damage.
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