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STUN
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- Chapter 19 A Mirai that couldn't attack? I pulled down the three binaries from the previous chapter expecting the usual DDoS arsenal. It wasn't there: not one attack function. What it does instead —and above all, the channel its orders arrive on— is the strangest thing that has come through the honeypot. A bug designed, top to bottom, not to be seen.
- Chapter 20 Twelve alibis and a mailbox The previous chapter left a question the binary doesn't answer: of the thirteen STUN servers Cling beacons to, one has to be the operator's mailbox —because the bot announces its ports only to those thirteen, to nobody else— and yet all thirteen look like innocent VoIP providers. I didn't catch it issuing an order; I found it by elimination and exclusivity, using public records to see who talks to each one. Twelve have an alibi. The thirteenth doesn't.