Now what?

[libertango]

Conficker has come and gone and... No one can figure out what it did, if anything.

The Guardian posts an "all clear" piece, but as I just commented: "(W)e don't know whether or not Conficker has done anything. We only know that if it has, we haven't been able to notice what it is."

I don't think this is necessarily a case where "no noticeable effect" should equal "relief that nothing happened." If anything, no noticeable effect should be scaring the bejeezus out of people since it could well be adding plausibility to my hypothesis that properly executed exploits have no noticeable effect.

Comments

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

It did have an effect. One person I know panicked and refused to go onto the internet all day.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but this thing was being watched very closely, in lab conditions. If something was happening, we would have known about it.

B

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Are you kidding? Woz got booted off Dancing With The Stars! I read on the Internet that Conficker was to blame!

K.