Archive for the 'Botnet' Category



Botnet - Not just the Bane of Mankind!

Published on January 8, 2007

So, everyone in this age has heard of the “eeeeeviiiil botnets”, yes? They’re shown all over the media threatening our livelyhoods, they’re written about in the newspapers, and its obvious the world is going to end tomorrow due to these little buggers. Or is it? I for one am quite intriguied by botnets, and the viruses (I was formally corrected this weekend that viruses is the “correct” plural, so there ya go) that form them. In many ways these evil little guys are the best coding we see nowadays when OSes are…. abysmal to say the least. Now, of course I’m not intriguied enough to MAKE a botnet in the wild… that’d be evil and wrong, and obviously I’d be anti-freedom. But I’d still like to play with them, and to that end, I unveil the game Malap and I were working on this weekend.

Botnet!


Game Design Weekend

Published on January 7, 2007

Well, I didn’t get an update of my weekend last night, was a bit too tired to want to type very much. So, this’ll be my last for the weekend, I think. But to understand what I’ve been wasting my time on, you need some backstory.
Early last semester (Fall ‘06) I was talking with Malap [...]