15 Mar
2004
15 Mar
'04
6:38 a.m.
I expect every NANOG conference from now on will be filled with announcements asking people to please fix their computers because worms are killing the network. NANOG has less than 500 attendees, yet has about the same number as infected computers as any other ad-hoc network population.
Maybe NANOG needs to implement a system where you have to log in to a web page with your NANOG meeting passcode in order to get a usable IP address. Then, when an infected computer shows up we will know exactly whose it was. Might even be interesting for a researcher to interview every infected party and figure out why it is happening even among a supposedly clueful group. --Michael Dillon