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Storm Botnet Movie

Cory always has a way with words:
The Storm Worm botnet (thought to be the largest network of compromised machines in the world) has begun to figure out which security researchers are trying to disrupt its command-and-control systems and knock them offline with unmanagable crapfloods from its zillions of zombie machines.

StormWorm botnet lashes out at security researchers, Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing, October 24, 2007 12:35 PM

But Michael Froomkin found a movie illustrating the situation:

Hiding inside while hordes of zombies dance outside and eat away at the doors; yep, that’s pretty much the state of Internet security.

-jsq