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That's true, and a lot of effort is being poured into it.

I hope that this activity is being sponsored by victims of botnets or their governments to reduce malicious infections, since the Internet of $#!^ has no incentive. This may be the best case scenario.

You describe the worst case scenario. I hope you're wrong, but only time will tell.

Hajime is Japanese for 'beginning' - just saying.

This is a great point. While reading this, I thought it was Miari 2.0, but was pleasantly surprised to read that the creator(s) works as a benevolent vigilante. If (one of) the botnet creator(s) decides to become malicious, it will have a large network at it's disposal.