The article is wrong it's IRC not ICQ

Hahaha. Peter, somehow my mind had already given itself the license to "autotranslate" icq into irc, as I didn't even realize the mistake in the article until you pointed it out! hahahaha!

Correct me if I am wrong, but from my experience, botnets are typically controlled by IRC, not ICQ.

I find it amusing that garbled code was running a botnet on Twitter. You'd think they could flag tweets that didn't have any real words in them and kill the accounts faster.

I can't wait to see what the drooling retard mainstream media are going to write about this.