Occam’s razor as applied to espionage…
I’ve never been the paranoid conspiracy type, but Brad Templeton asks a question that has me scratching my head…and looking for tinfoil. Are botnets run by spy agencies? Consider…
Of all the spy agencies in the world, can it be that none of them have thought of this? That none of them are tempted by being able to comb through a large fraction of the world’s disk drives, looking for both bad guys and doing plain old espionage?
That’s hard to fathom. The question is, how would we detect it? And if it’s true, could it mean that spies funded (as a cover story) the world’s spamming infrastructure?