And the biggest April Fools’ Day prank of all … Conficker

What a remarkable non-event the entire Conficker saga became.  With MONTHS of reseach, and loads and loads of the usual media hype complete with industry pundants and “experts”, Conficker failed to deliver the goods, leaving tons of patching teams exhausted, incident response folks waiting in vain, and for those of who predicted a non-event, smuggly saying “I Told You So” and then writing sad little blog posts to further remind everyone that, well, I told you so.  

Frankly, I’m a little disappointed.  With that much alledged effort going into the worm, you’d hope that at the least it would rickroll everyone by proxying http, or just poisoning the local DNS cache.  But nope, nothing.  

I can’t bring myself to watch mainstream news on internet worms because, well, it’s like watching a really bad war movie where everyone in the theater thinks it’s great but as the one guy who was actually Infantry I can’t help laughing at it .   I heard that 60 minutes did this huge hype up on Conficker though, including showing of keystroke loggers, so I googled them up.  Sure ’nuff, they’ve got their “Internet Expert.”  Sorry what ? Internet Expert ? What the fuck is that ? Oh wait AND he’s a lawyer. Great. This link is NOT clicking through; they deserve no more hits.

~ by mattfisher on April 1, 2009.