Curious Yellow, Superworm

Posted by Hemos on Monday October 28, 2002 @10:46PM from the destroying-the-world dept.

jpmccord writes "Brandon Wiley's white paper, Curious Yellow, explains how "a superworm -- a worm that coordinates it actions among infected hosts and launches a massive distributed denial of service attack on any hosts it can't infect using those it can" (via disLEXia, a weblog by Maximillian Dornseif). The "doomsday scenario" frightens "even us", says Dornseif. An accompanying discussion rebukes Wiley's article a bit. Aaron Swartz's light-hearted take is rather entertaining: "So go read it now and find out how you can take over the whole Internet. And if you're going to, could you give me 24 hours notice?""

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This is a repeat ... by sdr · 2002-10-28 22:56 · Score: 5, Informative

of this article.
Re:Doomsday scenario? by Pike65 · 2002-10-28 23:38 · Score: 5, Informative

Corporate and military communications, banking transactions, medical information tracking, etc, etc

Actually in the UK each regional Trust communicates using direct lines between centres. If you send medical details between Trusts, it's still done via paperwork.

They trust the Internet about as much as I do ; )

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