I'm surprised we haven't seen worms doing more interesting tasks than coordinated DDOS attacks... Think what would happen if a worm spread some sort of simple P2P client to every machine it hit, and just initiated random downloads of mp3's from other worm-infested nodes (and maybe users could make a "suggested downloads list" through a config file somewhere). The RIAA would get dizzy trying to find a target to sue...
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I'm surprised we haven't seen worms doing more interesting tasks than coordinated DDOS attacks... Think what would happen if a worm spread some sort of simple P2P client to every machine it hit, and just initiated random downloads of mp3's from other worm-infested nodes (and maybe users could make a "suggested downloads list" through a config file somewhere). The RIAA would get dizzy trying to find a target to sue...