Feds Working to Stop Worms

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday January 31, 2003 @02:36AM from the information-superhighway-patrol dept.

mbenzi writes "This article from GovExec describes how the feds worked to prevent a worm that could have been orders of magnitude worse than Code Red. Short on details, but an interesting timeline."

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I saw this and thought of dune/star wars by AssFace · 2003-01-31 02:37 · Score: 4, Funny

I'm glad I can now walk through the desert without the sand worms attacking.

thanks government!

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1. Re:I saw this and thought of dune/star wars by Lord_Slepnir · 2003-01-31 03:00 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I'm glad I can now walk through the desert without the sand worms attacking
  With the upcoming Desert War II, President Bush wants to make sure that the Iraqis riding on sandworms won't be able to get behind our lines and cause horrofic dammage like they did before.
  There are also unconfirmed reports of a new spiritual leader who has been supplying them with rocket launchers and teaching them how to ambush the spi--, er, oil smugglers. Let's just hope there isn't a sand storm when Bush visits....
Is this the first draft of the new ... by CSG_SurferDude · 2003-01-31 02:49 · Score: 4, Funny

Is this the first draft of the new Michael Crichton novel?
I found the plot rather thin, the characters unbelievably one-dimensional, and the ending was far to pat and convenient to believe.
Actually, it reads like most of his novels.

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Already something worse than Code Red... by LordYUK · 2003-01-31 02:53 · Score: 4, Funny

they call it Pepsi Blue.

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It is good to know by teamhasnoi · 2003-01-31 03:04 · Score: 4, Funny

that the old X-files writers are getting some work.
Re:Who the heck wrote this? by tg_schlacht · 2003-01-31 03:18 · Score: 4, Funny

With a gang of zombies at his command, the creator of a superworm could mob a Web site or computer system, flooding it with bogus electronic transmissions until it drowned in the data torrent.

A smart worm could just post a link to the website it wants to bring down to Slashdot in an article made of carefuly crafted phrases built of buzzwords.

So who needs a gang of zombies? Oh, wait.... nevermind.