The dust has settled from RSA 2007, and it was standing room only as Wayne Porter and I explored the methods of shutting down Botnets by dealing with details outside of the Botnet itself - in other words, tackling the…

It has been fixed on the RSA official version of the presentation available for download to conference participants.

Interesting thought Loner, to use Botnets to crunch crypto. Yet another reason to hate the bot.

Eventually, if not already, that third phase could include leveraging the CPU power of that base in addition to the networking power, much like Folding or SETI do now with using spare cycles to perform scientific stuff. I wonder how long some encryption might last when put through the ringers of a botnet cracking party? Or perform a distributed brute force against open authentication systems on the network (what is that? an FTP server listening? brute it from 10,000 different sources!)

I wonder if, 10 years from now, corporate networks will leverage campus systems in much the same way? Need some crunching done on a big report?