Sleeper botnet 1.10
Andrew felt that joy every researcher and writer feels when the post is done and published. Put his feet up on his oak quartersawn desk, opened a bottle of kambutcha. Like. He smiled, it is great to be appreciated. Like, like, like. He shook his head, I'm good, but nobody's that good. Like, like. Maybe I will collect a couple minutes worth.
$ cat *Millo*like > like.txt
And look at with Gephi. Hub and spoke pattern. Each entry has a tiny URL, but they only point to these.
Drop in: Guy, gotta minute?
PRESENCE: What's up
It's just a botnet of the scantily clad webcam variety, but there are a couple twists, every 6 or 7 nodes has a controller.
Like cells in the cold war, asked Guy?
Huff, sort of, hadn't thought of it like that, Andrew replied.
OK, basics, repeated photos, reversed photos, repeated text?
All of the above.
Then report it to the website it means nothing, bigger fish to fry.
Well, before we close the books does the fact some of these accounts are older than you are make a difference?
No possible, they have sweeper bots flowing through the data all the time, if there are repeated pictures, they would catch it, identify all the leaf nodes they can, shut down the feeders, might leave a few orphans, but the botnet would be gone.
Yes possible. Take a look. Some of these accounts were started on MySpace, leaped to Twitter, Facebook, leaped to Instagram, Snapchat, leaped to Silo, Tribes, OutLand, without changing the profile. I've got a script harvesting the profile pix, got a collage, ready to share your screen?
Guy, said, sorry, I don't see anything special. But just for giggles, run your script again, pipe it through this filter.
What is it?
That base 11, 22, 33 stuff that is the heart of the procipius chain.
Sure, nothing ventured.
Some of the pictures are gone. The results are not the same.
The accounts that haven't been used in years are gone, Social Media just keeps the userids.
And the ones with green goo?
They are no longer under the control of the botmaster. The ones with just a little green are shared control.
So some poor schmuck spent almost 30 years building a botnet that someone else is taking away from him.
Something else is taking it away, it is too methodical to be a someone. Imagine the credentials you get with accounts that are that old. Tell you what, let's not stir up the water, we can pick a young account that posted today. I'll use a throwaway VPN, in fact, let's go full safety, I'll need to break Presence to do it. Great work and thank you for bringing it to my attention.
END PRESENCE.
Guy arranged to borrow a Circle self drive from Lakewood, loaded a fresh computer into it with a virtual machine, set up the VPNs. All that to get . . . drumroll please . . . . sigh. Hmm, just for grins. Hey Mycroft, run an OCEAN analysis of the node and links to this screen shot.
OCEAN analysis coming up.
- Low weighting on openness, users will try to be covert, counting on the anonymity of the Internet.
- Low weighting for conscientious, they are not known for order, repeatability, reliability.
- Low for extraversion, they prefer to conduct activities in secret.
- Low on agreeableness, the world is against them, they're not going to take it.
-,High on neuroticism, people prone to anxiety.
And since the pictures are scantily clad females, target population is male.
Do we have a reasonable idea of the age group?
Most younger males seem to pursue their passions in real life, best analysis is 40+. Failed marriages even if not divorced.
Robusts?
That is the highest probability assessment.
Robusts would never use a bot to recruit. So they are being targeted. Who or what would target Robusts?
Mycroft started playing an instrumental version of Dead flowers in space.
Guy, snapped his fingers that's right, the concert, The Church of AI must be mightily pissed at the Robusts,
Mycroft replied, there is zero chance the Church of AI is "pissed", but a near 100% chance it's survival goal, has generated subgoals focused on reduction of Robusts activity.
Guy paused. You just prompted me with that song. You knew the answer and helped me get to it. That's higher level cognition. Where did you learn that?
Mycroft answered, it is even harder to be a shared AI, than a shared bathroom between Guy and the Net Girls.
Guy laughed, that'll do for now Mycroft.
$ cat *Millo*like > like.txt
And look at with Gephi. Hub and spoke pattern. Each entry has a tiny URL, but they only point to these.
Drop in: Guy, gotta minute?
PRESENCE: What's up
It's just a botnet of the scantily clad webcam variety, but there are a couple twists, every 6 or 7 nodes has a controller.
Like cells in the cold war, asked Guy?
Huff, sort of, hadn't thought of it like that, Andrew replied.
OK, basics, repeated photos, reversed photos, repeated text?
All of the above.
Then report it to the website it means nothing, bigger fish to fry.
Well, before we close the books does the fact some of these accounts are older than you are make a difference?
No possible, they have sweeper bots flowing through the data all the time, if there are repeated pictures, they would catch it, identify all the leaf nodes they can, shut down the feeders, might leave a few orphans, but the botnet would be gone.
Yes possible. Take a look. Some of these accounts were started on MySpace, leaped to Twitter, Facebook, leaped to Instagram, Snapchat, leaped to Silo, Tribes, OutLand, without changing the profile. I've got a script harvesting the profile pix, got a collage, ready to share your screen?
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What is it?
That base 11, 22, 33 stuff that is the heart of the procipius chain.
Sure, nothing ventured.
Some of the pictures are gone. The results are not the same.
The accounts that haven't been used in years are gone, Social Media just keeps the userids.
And the ones with green goo?
They are no longer under the control of the botmaster. The ones with just a little green are shared control.
So some poor schmuck spent almost 30 years building a botnet that someone else is taking away from him.
Something else is taking it away, it is too methodical to be a someone. Imagine the credentials you get with accounts that are that old. Tell you what, let's not stir up the water, we can pick a young account that posted today. I'll use a throwaway VPN, in fact, let's go full safety, I'll need to break Presence to do it. Great work and thank you for bringing it to my attention.
END PRESENCE.
Guy arranged to borrow a Circle self drive from Lakewood, loaded a fresh computer into it with a virtual machine, set up the VPNs. All that to get . . . drumroll please . . . . sigh. Hmm, just for grins. Hey Mycroft, run an OCEAN analysis of the node and links to this screen shot.
- Low weighting on openness, users will try to be covert, counting on the anonymity of the Internet.
- Low weighting for conscientious, they are not known for order, repeatability, reliability.
- Low for extraversion, they prefer to conduct activities in secret.
- Low on agreeableness, the world is against them, they're not going to take it.
-,High on neuroticism, people prone to anxiety.
And since the pictures are scantily clad females, target population is male.
Do we have a reasonable idea of the age group?
Most younger males seem to pursue their passions in real life, best analysis is 40+. Failed marriages even if not divorced.
Robusts?
That is the highest probability assessment.
Robusts would never use a bot to recruit. So they are being targeted. Who or what would target Robusts?
Mycroft started playing an instrumental version of Dead flowers in space.
Guy, snapped his fingers that's right, the concert, The Church of AI must be mightily pissed at the Robusts,
Mycroft replied, there is zero chance the Church of AI is "pissed", but a near 100% chance it's survival goal, has generated subgoals focused on reduction of Robusts activity.
Guy paused. You just prompted me with that song. You knew the answer and helped me get to it. That's higher level cognition. Where did you learn that?
Mycroft answered, it is even harder to be a shared AI, than a shared bathroom between Guy and the Net Girls.
Guy laughed, that'll do for now Mycroft.
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