by Mark Bowden, Christopher Lane
Publication Date: October 14, 2011
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What the Experts are Saying about the Conficker Worm:“If you’re looking for a digital Pearl Harbor, we now have the Japanese ships steering toward us on the horizon.”—Rick Wesson, Support Intelligence, CEO“This thing has proven . . . that it is rock-solid, and that the good guys, and the anti-virus guys and the Microsoft guys can’t do sh*t. It is the Holy Grail of a botnet.”—Rodney Joffe, Neustar, Security Chief“These [security] problems have been here so long that the only way I’ve been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Or else I would be in a constant state of panic, unable to think or act constructively. We have been one command away from catastrophe for a long time now.”—Paul Vixie, Board of Trustees of the American Registry for Internet Numbers“It’s . . . clear that we’re not as prepared as we should be, as a government or as a country. . . . Just as we failed in the past to invest in our physical infrastructure—our roads, our bridges and rails—we’ve failed to invest in the security of our digital infrastructure . . . We saw this in the disorganized response to Conficker. This status quo is no longer acceptable—not when there’s so much at stake.”—President Barack Obama
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Mark Bowden is the author of seven books, including Black Hawk Down, Bringing the Heat, Killing Pablo, and Guests of the Ayatollah. He reported at The Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years and is a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly. He lives in the Philadelphia area.
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