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[–] 26 points 3 years ago

Truth Social?

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  • [+] -15 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Ummm ... this is a bit disconcerting. I mean good the gov't did something, but W O W on their ability to uninstall a program from privately-owned computers.

    "The investigation culminated late last week, when the FBI redirected the botnet’s internet traffic through computer servers controlled by the bureau and then issued commands to some infected computers to uninstall the malicious software."

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  • [–] 57 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Sounds to me like they hacked the bot net rather than used some universal backdoor into privately owned computers.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    This is correct. Someone doesn’t know what a C2 is.

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  • [+] -12 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Oh boy can't wait for this to be used maliciously, assuming it hasn't already.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    This article is literally about it being used maliciously

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I think they meant the FBI taking it over and not shutting it down.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    They took it over to shut it down.

    Which I'm fine with, if they had a warrant or court order or something. A real one, not a FISA court. But generally I don't think they should do that.

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