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The three million toothbrush botnet story isn’t true.
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It was a psi-op to distract you from the horrible reality of the Furby Bot-net that will be the end of life as we know it
I suspect you would enjoy the story of Furbeowulf.
http://www.trygve.com/furbeowulf.html
That page is old enough that it doesn't seem to support HTTPS. If your browser automatically converts HTTP to HTTPS, you're going to get a warning about an insecure connection. Here's a wayback machine link that supports a secure connection:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230503215715/http://www.trygve.com/furbeowulf.html
"secure connection failed" accessing that link
Edited with explanation and alternate link.
I was there, at the beginning, and I am living to see the end
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