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by raganwald 5872 days ago
Should we assume this is a question of venality? What if it is being controlled by a foreign superpower with no qualms about conducting cyber-intelligence gathering or disruption?
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If we want to think very bad of the bad guys, it scares me to think to the Joker in "The Dark Knight" and a quote from Alfred: some people just want to see the whole world burn.

It's quite extreme and it is questionable that people so smart are looking for something like this, but it often surprise and scares me to what extent humans are able to go.

I surely hope that ultimate disruption is not the plan behind Conficker.

"What if it is being controlled by a foreign superpower ..."

Or a foreign minor-power with delusions of super.