AW: [Full-Disclosure] future happenings..

[vogt@hansenet.com]

> infected systems - do
> some of you lot think its feasible that sometime in the 
> future someone will
> release a worm that DOES completely wipe the hard disks or do 
> something
> equally nasty to its host AFTER sending itself on to 'x' 
> recipients?

Yes. I am about to prove in my forthcoming paper that this
is not only feasable, but that the current assumption that
a "self-destruct payload" will hinder the worm propagation
is wrong, given that it is implemented with a bit of
intelligence.


Tom Vogt
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