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Kelihos.B takedown

There are two main points to take away from the Kelihos.B takedown. The first is that malware writers, as smart as they are, are really dumb. Forget about malware for a moment, and imagine the architecture involved in Kelihos.B was part of a legitimate distributed-computing business system. Would you invest all that time and effort to build a P2P network and design a mechanism for message propagation, then leave it wide open to attack by failing to include any form of authentication mechanism? It’s...