Feb 2009
Worms
Yep, back from my little break. And what a special chapter this one is. In case you didn't read these notes before, maybe you didn't realize that I write out the entire story before drawing a single panel. So when I put together the concept of the Cxor worm, it was way back in early 2004. Strangely enough, I thought I had come up with a new kind of killer exploit that would be revolutionary and scary - an exploit that was delivered via image files. Well, a few months later, reality caught up with me.
Then I had to come up with a worm that was going to cripple the Internet... a massive bot-net. The FBI would be baffled as to how to stop it and who to blame. Sadly, this has already come true... a couple times already. This story was written before Storm and certainly before Conficker. At the time, over a million infected computers in a botnet was terrifying. Now we're up to what... 15 million?
There's one more crazy concept I came up with for this worm, which you'll see play out in chapter 12. But it too has already become reality since I wrote this.
Sigh, life in the Internet age really is murder. We just need a few more real world Heidis.
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