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Microsoft Worms and Global Routing Instability

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the smoking-gun dept.

James Cowie writes: "Fresh analysis here indicates that worm propagation periods correlate very strongly with global BGP routing instability, as measured by sustained exponential increases in the number of prefix announcements and withdrawals seen in BGP message traces."

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  1. New law by mnordstr · · Score: 0, Troll

    Since they are making new laws to forbid strong encryption, they might do something useful and introduce a law that forbids software which can be (easily) used to run worms on.

    That might kick M$ from their chairs and make them focus on the quality of their programs, instead of the quantity.