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The article makes it out to be this big dangerous thing, but I'd bet you anything it's just a harmless april fools joke. That said, the net authorities are getting their butts handed to them neatly arranged on a silver platter by these hackers.
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quote:“In the worst case,” Mr. Porras said, “Conficker could be turned into a powerful offensive weapon for performing concerted information warfare attacks that could disrupt not just countries, but the Internet itself.”
I love this quote because it's not just countries. The internet is amazing.
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The really amazing thing about that quote is that it's there because botnets have already been used in attacks against individual countries.
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From the description of the time and effort being put into staying ahead of the authorities on this, I would be extremely surprised if it's just a joke.
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