Posted on Friday, 13th January 2012 by Michael
Daemon Reality
Daniel Suarez wrote in his book Daemon about a man that upon his death a strategically crafted computer system that would launch a mulitude of events that range from something extremely simple to murder. In the book he mentions how there are a multitude of systems monitoring different resources for this person’s death. What if we eliminated the need for such a vast system and used the number one social media site and a simple application. What if we stream line the process?
Today I stumbled upon an application for the social media giant Facebook called “If I Die” (http://www.ifidie.net). This application allows you to record a message or a post that upon your death and verification of your three trustees will be posted to your Facebook account. Wow now over several million people will know I am dead before the newspapers even have the first obituary with my death printed.
So you are now thinking how does this line up with the book the Daemon? Well let’s go back a few months to my Facebook bot I wrote (http://www.digitaloffensive.com/2010/08/facebook-bot-fbcbot-pl/). This bot would monitor my Facebook account for key word posts then launch commands locally to carry out my wishes. So right now you are probably thinking that’s all fine and dandy if you have a system you can guarantee will be up and running all the time as well at least for a short time after your death. Well what about cloud computing? How about Amazon cloud? They offer you a free cloud system as long as you stay below a certain usage each month. From my past usage of the system they charge you at the end of the month or in increments for usage of the cloud. So even if you are dead and your bill can’t be paid it does not matter cause after your bot detects your death it can now do whatever you want, such as create a bot net.
So the process would be this. Upon my death (if this application still exists) my bot running on the cloud will see my post that will give it my final command. It will then check several sites like ww.exploit-db.com for new vulnerabilities. It will then use key Google Dorks from what it found on exploit-db.com to build a list of vulnerable servers and to use the code found on that site to start attacking and infecting these hosts. Right now you are wait this is illegal! What do I care I am dead! Once the infection spreads to multiple hosts it does not matter if my cloud is shut down for nonpayment as my bot net has started.
Now that you have an idea where I am going with this train of thought think about other things you can do? You have a life time to prepare your master piece 🙂
Pictures and code for fbcbot.pl " I am dead code will be posted shortly"
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