Botnets vs. Aliens

If tomorrow we are invaded by aliens and they use our own Internet, we are going to use Botnets to attack them.

After the years botnets have evolve from a rudimentary union of computers to a highly resilient and complex network of very sophisticated software. They are being attacked every day, their domains are taken down, their computers are being seized, they protocols are being decrypted, they code is being analyzed, their core control computers are being taken and they are being studied and dissected several times each day. And despite all that, they keep doing their job.

Yes, sometimes some of these actions are enough to stop some of them, but hundreds (maybe thousands)  more are being created and remain under the radar.

Doesn't this amaze you? We are trying really hard to stop them, they are being attacked continually and they still they manage to survive. It remembers me about the supposedly origin of the Internet: to survive a nuclear attack. Perhaps the story is not true, but if I must choose which overlay network achieved this, I should pick botnets.

Botnets are composed of a large set of technologies, from the good old IRC to P2P, social networks, routers, IPv6, HTTP, custom protocols, tor and a large etc. But none of this technologies alone (perhaps not even P2P) has achieved this survivability. Together, along with a good will to survive (and pushed by money) they managed to get really hard to stop. No other network has received so many attacks and learnt from the them to evolve.

You could be fighting them or creating them, but you can not ignore that if we need an attacking tool against the Aliens in the future, we are going to pick Botnets to help us.