zombies among us
17 October 2006 16:47![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jrtomhttp://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2029720,00.asp
found/discussed here: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/17/002251
Not a bad overview article on the phenomenon. (Although the /. discussion seems to suggest that the people that annotated the screenshots didn’t really know that much about IRC; apparently the “lots of cryptic data” is fairly standard stuff.)
As the (provocative) title suggests, the outlook of those interviewed is not exactly rosy. But there may be other ways of dealing with the problem than the "whack-a-mole" method of trying to root them out individually.
found/discussed here: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/17/002251
Not a bad overview article on the phenomenon. (Although the /. discussion seems to suggest that the people that annotated the screenshots didn’t really know that much about IRC; apparently the “lots of cryptic data” is fairly standard stuff.)
As the (provocative) title suggests, the outlook of those interviewed is not exactly rosy. But there may be other ways of dealing with the problem than the "whack-a-mole" method of trying to root them out individually.