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codexontoday at 12:24 AM2 repliesview on HN

The problem is most of the botnet zombies are in places with very little rule of law like eastern europe/russia/south america/china. It is an exercise in futility and the richest customers just opt to just spend money on more protection than shutting down the zombies.

If the zombie is in the US, hosts like Google or Amazon will take 1+ month to respond.


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account42today at 9:43 AM

Then IP-range block those places until they get their affairs in order.