Emufarmers Sangly wrote:
So botnets are having their slaves use gibberish postings as a method of phoning home? That's absolutely devious, but it sounds like a logistical nightmare in comparison to current methods: You wouldn't know which gibberish string belongs to which bot unless it had already communicated its identification string to you beforehand, in which case there would be no need to phone home!
You can tell them the "gibberish string" to use, no need to have the software calling you to tell the vulnerable page list. You won't be traced by the cops for searching racrodr on google!
I'm sure the evil masterminds behind such operations could probably engineer a solution around that issue, but adding gibberish to random wikis still seems like a pretty far-out method of communication in comparison to just identifying through an IRC channel or a Web page or whatever. (The only real benefit I could see to this scheme is that it would be harder to infiltrate or break, which may now be at the top of the botmaster's concerns.)
It makes most sense. Not only did the bots post it, but it was still there when googlebot spidered that web (few or null spam-cleaning), so if they had spammed "Buy my viagra", google would have indexed it.