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“Botnet,” Togusa mutters.... «The Ghost in the Shell: Five New Short Stories»
“Botnet,” Togusa mutters. He's referring to a distributed processing system formed by computers infected with viruses connecting to each other after they've turned into bots and zombies.
“A ghostnet.” Batou doesn't sound particularly amused. “True, it’s empty past the ghost line. A cluster of auto-reply programs for whom infection and expansion is everything. When I asked why they chose to develop their ability to reply in human languages, the answer I got was, ‘Survival rates improve when you beg for your life.’ ”