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Curious Yellow, Superworm

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. really scary ... by BESTouff · · Score: 1, Troll
    But is it really more frightening that Microsoft's new DRM measures (accompanied with its ad-hoc EULA) which propagates through Windows Update and may instant-DDOS all P2P networks ?

    Note that both Curious Yellow and Palladium are still theoric menaces.