Internet providers can pull the plug on botnets, even if it comes belatedly under pressure from the security community and newpaper articles. We have seen this with the recent take downs of Atrivo-Intercage, Est, McColo, where the bad stuff flowed from central servers.
Brian Krebs at The Washington Post, So Much Spam From One Place?
Vincent Weafer, director of development for Symantec Security Response, said the success of Storm, combined with so many criminal operations having been burned by the McColo takedown, strongly suggests botnets are going to continue adopting P2P technology.
That means decentralization.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) may get an earful.
Also at the Washington Post:
Answers Trickle Out as Spammer Networks Remain Compromised
