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jakejake on March 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Please do not take down the Sality botnet

Is it just me or did the OP just blow a rare opportunity to be a hero? The power of a zero-day exploit is that you don't announce it and give the target a chance to make a patch.

rplnt on March 28, 2012 [–]

So he should've contacted the botnet owner and tell him to patch sites he use for controlling the botnet?

jakejake on April 1, 2012 | [–]

That's exactly what he did by announcing this publicly instead of just going to a public wifi and quietly taking down the botnet.

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