Once the victim received a text message that included a certain protocol, the malware would send the collected data back to the command-and-control server.

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The dish would send the ISP's data up to one of the satellites (in low earth orbits to minimize signal delay), which would then relay the data back down to a backbone access point.

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This botnet would then send a large number of requests to the DNS which would reply, resulting in a much larger amount of data being fired at the target, causing it to be swamped.

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As luck would have it, a project called NOvA, which should start collecting data in the spring of 2013, will send neutrinos through the Earth's crust from Batavia to an underground detector 810km away in Minnesota.

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