About Botnets, Video Games, and Bad Predictions

A year ago, I did a write up about the potential for botnets migrating to non traditional computing platforms. My conclusion was that seventh generation video game systems have the most potential from as a botnet platform based on a model that I defined in the write up.

Here we are a year later, and as it turns out, nope, no botnet on any video game system. So on that point, I have to hang my head and admit I am no better then any random caller to Art Bell. On the other hand, I do stand by my conclusion that video game platforms would make a good platform for for the creation of a botnet. However, the model I created needs work. There was a variable I did not account for.

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