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Researcher ropes poorly protected devices into botnet to map the Internet

A fascinating but technically illegal experiment conducted by an anonymous researcher has witnessed over 420,000 Internet-connected devices being roped into a botnet that functioned as a distributed p…

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Researcher ropes poorly protected devices into botnet to map the Internet

Researcher sets up illegal 420,000 node botnet for IPv4 internet map

Potentially risks thousands of years in jail An anonymous researcher has taken an unorthodox approach to achieve the dream of mapping out the entire remaining IPv4 internet – and in doing so broken enough laws around the world to potentially put him or her behind bars for thousands of years.…

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Researcher sets up illegal 420,000 node botnet for IPv4 internet map