An anonymous reader writes: So i was just thinking and would like everyones response on this question spawned from the recent talks about the US's new cyber warfare squad.
If your government asked you to volunteer your computer as a weapon would you? all it would take would be a small download, a click, and instant service to your country by participation in a military controlled botnet. What if they demanded service, or did it on the sly? Voluntary help could even earn you military status of some kind, or some other bonus, perhaps free health care? Service could be given in the sence of computing cycles in the vein of SETI@home and others or pure might of range and bandwidth. Sure the military could just build a supercomputer or two(hundred) to accomplish this but why waste a valuable resource. I'd like to know international opinions aswell, what if your homeland asked you as a computer consumer to potentially defend your country by joining a botnet or donating cycles? Huge security concerns asside. Also, what about potential to assist(or perhaps harm) emerging third-world countries defend themselves if they make botnets out of their own loyal citizenry lucky enough to have a computer mandatory.
Hackers of all hats, what would be your feelings on working on a project to create such 'evil monstrosities' as military applications of offencive cyber tools such as virus/botnet/invasion tools.
