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A cybercrook who established a 30 million computer strong botnet has been jailed for four years in Armenia. Georgy Avanesov, 27, a Russian citizen of Armenian descent, had apparently been making a cool $125,000 a month renting out access to zombie drones in the infamous Bredolab botnet. Other crooks used access to these …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Go Team Armo!

    Oh, wait...

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  2. Dan Paul

    Not even East European jail is a good enough punishment

    We cannot use jail as a deterrent. It is not sufficiently bad enough.

    Those who create botnets and virii should have their skin flayed off with chemicals, then be dipped in ripe pig excrement so that flesh eating bacteria slowly chew them alive.

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    2. Gene
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      Re: Not even East European jail is a good enough punishment

      Or just make them watch every minute of the American presidential campaigns until November.

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      1. kain preacher
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        Re: Not even East European jail is a good enough punishment

        And risk creating a pissed of East European radical that want to kill ever thing related to politics ?

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      2. Euripides Pants
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        Re: Not even East European jail is a good enough punishment

        "Or just make them watch every minute of the American presidential campaigns until November."

        That's too cruel and unusual even for us - this is why televisions here in the land of the free are allowed to have off switches.

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