What good are several million Storm worm infected PCs ? According to one researcher, the current computing power of Storm worm’s botnet is greater than IBM’s Blue Gene supercomputer. "If you calculate pure theoretical throughput," Matt Sergeant, chief antispam technologist with security vendor MessageLabs, "then I’m sure the botnet has more capacity than IBM’s Blue Gene. If you sat them down to play chess, the botnet would win."
The Australian publication IT News also quotes Sergeant as saying, "In terms of power, the botnet utterly blows the supercomputers away." He goes on to say that (...)

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