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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Re:frizost pizost by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-28 22:51 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I think it's time for /. to post timestamps. Meer seconds aren't good enough anymore :-(
Re:Anyone else getting... by tanveer1979 · 2002-10-28 23:17 · Score: 1, Offtopic

...a curious sense of deja vu [slashdot.org]
you are late buddy, pray your friends have moderator points... or be ready for -1 redundant
More news : Due to large number of redundant articles on slashdot... people modded it -1 redundant. now to view slashdot you need glasses with -1 power

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