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Feds Working to Stop Worms
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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It's all over, people! We don't have a prayer, argh...
there's enough ingenuity in people that want to do wrong that they'll never be shut down completely.
Who said anything about "completely"? The point is that they tracked down someone who thought they were anonymous, and there's a message there for every other script kiddie (as a sidenote: I found this story overstated the capabilities of this worm which is something that security people usually do basically as a roundabout way of patting themselves on the back). Personally I think that the Internet should become a UN-style governed entity and any country that doesn't actively pursue computer criminals should be barred from the global internet.