The rogue program, which first arose last November, has confounded the efforts of security experts to trace its origins and purpose. (From The New York Times)
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OK, Why not set up a honey bucket, time a point in time for inactivation of ms misery aka "Windows," with a measured traffic redirect, set traps for conflicker known traffic sources, time entry of dummy dns servers on major conficker trunks, and create numerous ghost networks that mirror conficker traffic calls, with echoing responses to the conficker net, and monitors to catch traces of the confusion.
In other words, use the same divide and confuse that government uses to destroy citizen confidence, then redirect that desire for confidence to ghost watchers who then react with pseudo info to give the citizen-victim a sense of confidence in a replacement, that then reverses the trusted confidence info, back at the confidence source, causing massive confusion to the entire community structure, enabling monitors to catch unshielded data from the confused citizen - er conficker traffic centers.
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...like don't rely on Windows for anything really important?
This cyper 'bug' seems to be pretty robust and sturdy so... Why the hell has no one ever made a DRM with similar architecture?
In other words, use the same divide and confuse that government uses to destroy citizen confidence, then redirect that desire for confidence to ghost watchers who then react with pseudo info to give the citizen-victim a sense of confidence in a replacement, that then reverses the trusted confidence info, back at the confidence source, causing massive confusion to the entire community structure, enabling monitors to catch unshielded data from the confused citizen - er conficker traffic centers.
Just a thought . . .