Curious Yellow, Superworm · Slashdot Mirror

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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Anyone else getting... by pupok · 2002-10-28 22:57 · Score: 0, Redundant

...a curious sense of deja vu
What an original idea! by tswinzig · 2002-10-29 02:32 · Score: 2, Redundant

Too bad you copied it verbatim from another Slashdot user on the last time this article was posted.

That's illegal!

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