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jrtom ([personal profile] jrtom) wrote2006-10-17 04:47 pm

zombies among us

http://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.