Talk:sinkhole

Sinkhole has another computer/Internet definition, as used in the following quote from Infoworld E-zine of 11/22/2013:

In a similar situation, Microsoft took out 88 percent of the Citadel botnet this summer, going [s]o far as to send configuration files to the infected systems that forced them to connect to sinkholes, removing them from criminal control. At the time, Microsoft said that 40 percent of the computers that were part of the operation were cleaned of infection. However, there were those that said Microsoft's actions were nothing more than a clever PR stunt, and that they had no real impact on the threat landscape.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/security-expert-botnet-takedowns-are-about-garnering-press-have-no-lasting-impact-231295?source=IFWNLE_nlt_sec_2013-11-21 Dick Kimball (talk) 15:10, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

• Added. See w:DNS sinkhole for more details. SemperBlotto (talk) 15:21, 22 November 2013 (UTC)