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Re: [dvd-discuss] Fwd: Bush taps Clarke as CyberdefenseChief
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- Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Fwd: Bush taps Clarke as CyberdefenseChief
- From: Tom <tom(at)lemuria.org>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 10:13:18 +0200
- In-Reply-To: <20011010134752.A6641@johns.cc.uic.edu>; from jms@uic.edu on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 01:47:52PM -0500
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 01:47:52PM -0500, John Schulien wrote:
> Everyone is so creative about windows worm
> payloads ... modifying bank accounts, posting
> fake stories. There's a much less farfetched
> scenario ...
[...nation-wide hard-disk wiping...]
> THAT is the magnitude of the danger of the
> continuing revolving door of Microsoft ISS
> and Outlook bugs. Agreed. We ain't seen
> nothing yet.
it all depends on what you want to accomplish. random carnage and
destruction or a more specific goal. a targeted worm (say, spreading
like crazy but only killing the machines of a specific company) could
make its maker (and anyone who reverse-engineers it and uses instead of
publishing the results) millions at the exchange.