James A. Donald: > >> James A. Donald: >>> No one on my buddy list has been taken over, or if they have, they >>> took care of it before I noticed. > > On 2013-05-21 10:55 AM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > >> That is - how would they notice and if they were being logged, how would >> *you* notice on your end? > > I would notice, because they would spam me, this being the primary > income source and reproductive method for botnets.
You're not distinguishing between the classes of attacker that exist here; they are not all the same. Police malware only spreads, for example, when it needs coverage. It makes sense for such activity to target friends of a target when the target's computer is harder to compromise. Also, the bugs/exploits I've heard/seen/read about about in Skype do not all have UX indications that you've even received a message. All the best, Jacob _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
