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		ErrantX on March 17, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My Life in Child Porn yep - the botnets are usually multipurpose. You can buy botnets containing a few thousand machines all over the place fairly cheaply now.

chris11 on March 17, 2009 [–]

Do you know how likely it is for the police to arrest a bot herder?

ErrantX on March 17, 2009 | [–]

Somewhere between low and impossible.

Usually it would be the users (the ones that send out the spam etc. via the networks) who get caught - and that is a very low number as well really (compared to those uncaught).

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