wtf is a botnet

>>55119495
network of robots

>>55119495
99% of the time /g/ says "botnet" the mean dataminer. It became a meme a few years ago to use the wrong word and for some fucked up reason just stuck

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Botnet is everything other than BSD.

Anything that connects to the NSA network. Which usually happens through Google and Microsoft products.

>>55119539
The term is not used incorrectly. For example, since Microsoft can control your winblows 10 remotely, it is pretty much a botnet.

>>55119581
Calling dataminers botnets is most definitely incorrect usage. Windows 10 may be a botnet, but not because it's a dataminer, it's a botnet in addition to datamining.

>>55119495
Intel Management Engine

>>55119495

A botnet is a number of Internet-connected computers communicating with other similar machines in which components located on networked computers communicate and coordinate their actions by command and control (C&C) or by passing messages to one another (C&C might be built into the botnet as P2P).

>>55119495
Anything that connects to someone else's computer.

>>55119601
That's correct

centrally controlled data gathering via multiple network peers

the term itself does neither imply physical existence nor states (un)lawfullness, so use it wisely because it's very vague.

Anything proprietary

linux

Spyware.

Windows 10

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>>55119528
Mr. Robots?

>>55119528
this

>>55119581
>implying there is any operating system that cant be controlled remotely