The Department of Homeland Security and National Institute of Standards and Technology are looking to beat back the kudzu of spam generators, distributed denial of service zombies, and other botnets, and they want your cooperation—on a totally voluntary basis, of course. After a long and escalating string of high-profile attacks on government and corporate sites using botnets like the Low Orbit Io
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