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The Prof Says “Go Get Crypto”: … The Rise of the Intelligent Bot Hackers

Forget Facebook … Get Ready for the Real Fake News

Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
8 min readAug 9, 2018

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It has now been revealed that, over the past few months, there has been a massive botnet of over 15,000 strong. This botnet has been scraping social media and cloning IDs. The new feature is that the “bots” use machine learning to understand how best to…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.