Created Tue 6th May 8:11am PST by mork

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Spam spewing machine seized - Will it be shut down this year?

Forecast: No (51% chance )

Combining all predictions, the current most likely outcome is No with a probability of 51% (unchanged in last 1 day)

Researchers at TippingPoint Technologies' Digital Vaccine Laboratories have found a way to infiltrate and seize control of one of the world's largest spam-spewing botnets, a breakthrough that has ignited an intense debate over the ethics of "cleaning" infected computers.

Full Story: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Kraken-Botnet-Infiltration-Triggers-Ethics-Debate/

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• Suspend date: Tue 30th Dec 11:59pm PST (31 weeks to go)
• Settlement details: As reported by a major mainstream news source.
• Initial likelihoods: Yes: 50%

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Comments

  1 bayoubear

At first I was imagining that it was referring to one of my favorite meat items...what a relief

posted 2 weeks ago

  2 mork

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

posted 2 weeks ago

  3 arnos

I think they should kill the botnet.

posted 2 weeks ago

  4 lucidstates

Hahahaha, dude I totally thought this was about some machine shooting meat everywhere, hahahahaha :-P

posted 1 week ago

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Spam spewing machine seized - Will it be shut down this year?

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