In various privacy oriented tech circles you'll here the term botnet be thrown around to refer to anything that makes network connections and does something in response so today I thought I should take the time to explain what a botnet actually is.

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==========Time Stamps========== 0:00 Introduction 0:55 What Is A BotNet 3:50 Why Term Is Important 5:47 Architecture 7:23 Network Size 8:22 What Is Not A Botnet 8:58 Outro

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