[dvd-discuss] Fwd: Bush taps Clarke as CyberdefenseChief

[John Schulien <jms(at)uic.edu>]

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...]


On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 10:13:18 +0200 Tom wrote:
> it all depends on what you want to accomplish. random carnage and
> destruction or a more specific goal. a targeted worm (say, spreading
l> ike 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.

The story returns.  According to this article, the Sircam
worm was actually designed to erase all files on the hard drives of
one in 20 infected computers on Oct 16th, but a programming error
prevented it from working correctly.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0%2c1282%2c47582%2c00.html