Comment Re:Possibly a non-jackbooted response (Score 0) 84
1. A temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction that prohibits the Defendants (a) from using Coreflood to engage in wire fraud, bank fraud, or unauthorized interception of electronic communications, and (b) from running Coreflood on any computers not owned by the Defendants, by authorizing the operation of a substitute command and control server to give effect to the Court's orders;
2. A permanent injunction that requires the Defendants to uninstall Coreflood on any computers not owned by the Defendants and authorizes the operation of a substitute command and control server to give effect to the Court's orders; and
3. Such other relief as the Court deems just and proper.
So, what they asked for was:
- an order telling the people running the botnet to STOP THAT and to uninstall Coreflood from any computer it's on that they don't personally own,
- AND permission to take control of the botnet, OSTENSIBLY TO
- remove the Coreflood software from any infected computers it finds.
Maybe I'm just waving a tinfoil hat, but would you be surprised if, sometime in the future, it comes out that either
- The FBI took the opportunity to search the hard drives of any infected computer they find before removing Coreflood.
- The FBI never got around to actually removing the Coreflood software from people's computers and maintained control of their C&C server. or
- In a separate operation, the FBI actively went out to try to infect MORE systems with Coreflood to expand the impact of (a) and/or (b) above.