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This has to be some of the best research done on the public Internet itself in the past 10 years. I'm not sure what I'm going to try and do with the dump of data, but I can't imagine not finding something to extract from the ~600GB.

Highly illegal, yet highly intriguing that building a 400k+ node botnet is this damn simple.

That's ~600GB compressed - over 9TB when decompressed...... extremely slowly by ZPAQ. Seriously, at current rates the entire data set would take over 100 days to decompress on my computer. I'm only downloading a subset so I expect decompression will only take a couple of weeks. -_-

Are you extracting TO another device?

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