An Amazing Look at the Conficker Worm.

conficker sucks, oh wow they implemented a distributed hash table with public key partitioning, possibly piggybacking on it an anonymous routing algorithm. the rest is just your standard radmin server. there i dont even know anything about how it works and that's probably how they did it. also they use MD6, a real crypto pro would use Skein.

i mean sure it has managed to have a large number of infected systems, but keep in mind that's from the same vector as MS AntvirusXP Pro or stupid limewire infected files, none of which has any dignity or honor as an infection vector

and the people behind it probably don't care whether its a 'beautiful' achievement, they just care about making money. and why shouldn't they, it would be the equivalent of thinking youre so smart getting rich by making a super efficient factory that processes change from water fountains sucked up by autonomous self-guided robots posing as water fountains.

Some how I think this "worm" is somehow protecting the computer.(It's my guess but it sounds great.) The worm help the computer owner's by not allowing them to access the crappy antivirus they have floating around. It's like Kira from Deathnote, whoever he/she is they help protect the everyday person.

B.T.W. GLG there is an E variant, look here for more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker .

If they were to utilize just a fraction of the computing power of all the bots...

If they were to utilize just a fraction of the computing power of all the bots...

Imagine if they actually harnessed that power for good. In a similar vein to Folding@home, they could find the cure for cancer in a timely manner. I'd find that end result ethical if ends actually justified the means.

Also, Lenny, you crack me up. "If you spam this thread, I will be on you like a ton of bricks."

Imagine if they actually harnessed that power for good. In a similar vein to Folding@home, they could find the cure for cancer in a timely manner. I'd find that end result ethical if ends actually justified the means.

Imagine how much money they could make doing stuff like that.

Imagine how much money they could make doing stuff like that.

Maybe they're biding their time to figure out how much money they could possibly make doing what.

I'd find the highest bidder in the medical research branch.

Maybe they're biding their time to figure out how much money they could possibly make doing what. I'd find the highest bidder in the medical research branch.

Huhuhu~
They could also do crazier things, like make robots, if it's really possible. With all those computers, so much information is... it's like having every page on wikipedia open at the same time and reading all of them.

I thought about the folding thing as well, but couldn't it also be used in an attack to overload the security things on like NORAD, or whatever the government's computer thing is? Like an epic brute force attack or something?

I thought about the folding thing as well, but couldn't it also be used in an attack to overload the security things on like NORAD, or whatever the government's computer thing is? Like an epic brute force attack or something?

That seems entirely feasible.

I believe there was a spanish(maybe mexican, I don't remember) commander, or something, who used a full brute force attack, and it worked. Though it may seem stupid, brute force may work, when amazing tactics fall short.

i lol'D.