McAfee's Libel Against Open Source
Apr 15, 2008, 21:00 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Matt Asay)
"Over the weekend Stuart Hicks emailed the OSI about an odd
statement made by McAfee in its white paper on botnets:
"Taking the bot controller offline may kill a botnet. As a
result, many bots use a Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS) or have a
list of backup IP addresses to survive such an event. Bot
technology is rapidly evolving, often aided and abetted,
unfortunately, by the open-source movement..."
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