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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. frizost pizost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    yeah baby!! suckit

  2. worms by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The NEW dieting fad!

  3. first? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    first?

    phrack.efnet.ru

    -the real loki

  4. 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.

  5. i'm drunk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    i'm totally fukcing drunk and posting on slashdot now its so fun you should try it lollll mod this up you ufucks hahahaha

  6. frost pist waits for no one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    maybe you should buy a stop watch so you know when your 20 seconds are up. Until then. . .

    suckit!!

  7. For example... by NatePWIII · · Score: -1, Troll

    A link like this could easily overload Slashdot's servers and this isn't even hard to do:
    Possible Scenario
    So I wouldn't take something like this so lightly...

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    Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
    www.haidacarver.com