The anecdotal Fallacy writes "John Markoff has a story at the NY Times
exposition about what will happen on April 1 when the Conficker worm is chosen to activate. Already on an estimated 12 million machines, conjectures about Conficker's purpose ranges from the benign — an April Fool's Day prank — to far darker notions. Some say the program will be used in the 'rent-a-computer-crook' business, existent that has been tried precedently by the mainframe underground. 'The most stirring clue about the purpose of Conficker lies in the knotty design of the peer-to-peer logic of the latest version of the program, which shelter researchers are still trying to utterly decode,' writes Markoff. by the numbers to a paper by researchers at SRI International, in the Conficker C version of the program, infected televisions can act both as clients and servers and share files in both directions. With these capabilities, Conficker's authors could be contraception to create a scheme like Freenet, the peer-to-peer system that was intended to make world wide web censorship of figures impossible. On a darker note, Stefan Savage, a digital rocketer at the apprenticeship mash unit of California at San Diego, has suggested the contingency of a 'Dark Google.' 'What if Conficker is intended to give the micro* underworld the ability to search for data on all the infected radios around the globe and then sell the answers,' writes Markoff. 'That would be a dragnet — and a genuine horror story.'"

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