Are Botnets The Seeds of Machine Intelligence?
December 16th, 2008
The Botnet. It is a term that we have grown accustomed to hearing more and more often these days. These networks of zombie machines are responsible for much of the billions of Spam messages that find their way around the Internet every day. The Botnet is a blunt weapon of mass distraction costing billions of dollars in lost time, resources and fraud.
But botnets might be destined for more than just Spam. As it stands, botnets are some of the largest accumulations of computing power in the world today rivaled only by supercomputers and massive server farms such as those of Google. Read more…