At the same time it's much easier to write code that just died the bare minimum. Imagine you're a bot herder, if your bot net consists of stolen CPU cycles what difference does it make if your bots are slowed down. It doesn't cost you money.
> if your bot net consists of stolen CPU cycles what difference does it make if your bots are slowed down. It doesn't cost you money.
This is wrong. It does cost you money - either directly, because you paid money to use someone else's botnet, or as an opportunity cost, in that you can't use your bots on as many targets.
At the same time it's much easier to write code that just died the bare minimum. Imagine you're a bot herder, if your bot net consists of stolen CPU cycles what difference does it make if your bots are slowed down. It doesn't cost you money.