How Microsoft killed off a massive botnet, with trademark law (washingtonpost.com) 46 points by Claudus 12y ago ↗ HN
[–] lanstein 12y ago ↗ Along with FireEye and Pfizer: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_26/b42340727...Disclaimer: Alex Lanstein is my brother [–] lanstein 12y ago ↗ Note: We do not actually have a 65" computer monitor in our living room [–] jimueller 12y ago ↗ I'm really curious why the article states that. So many questions. Do you not have a 65" monitor or is it just not in the living room? [–] bitwize 12y ago ↗ I would hazard a guess that it's an HDTV, and Alex just hooked his laptop up to it for awesomeness purposes when the reporters were over. [–] lanstein 12y ago ↗ Correct :)
[–] lanstein 12y ago ↗ Note: We do not actually have a 65" computer monitor in our living room [–] jimueller 12y ago ↗ I'm really curious why the article states that. So many questions. Do you not have a 65" monitor or is it just not in the living room? [–] bitwize 12y ago ↗ I would hazard a guess that it's an HDTV, and Alex just hooked his laptop up to it for awesomeness purposes when the reporters were over. [–] lanstein 12y ago ↗ Correct :)
[–] jimueller 12y ago ↗ I'm really curious why the article states that. So many questions. Do you not have a 65" monitor or is it just not in the living room? [–] bitwize 12y ago ↗ I would hazard a guess that it's an HDTV, and Alex just hooked his laptop up to it for awesomeness purposes when the reporters were over. [–] lanstein 12y ago ↗ Correct :)
[–] bitwize 12y ago ↗ I would hazard a guess that it's an HDTV, and Alex just hooked his laptop up to it for awesomeness purposes when the reporters were over. [–] lanstein 12y ago ↗ Correct :)
[–] betterunix 12y ago ↗ Fantastic but I am a bit concerned here. You seize my equipment if it is being used to violate some trademark? This may have been used good in this case but I shudder at the thought of how it might be abused. [–] nolok 12y ago ↗ They seized the c&c servers, not the infected bots/clients
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