Readers, today we were suppose to be braced for implosion of the internet as we knew it. The conficker virus was supposed to go active and take out so much of the infrastructure of the network that computer communication would become all but impossible. First, let me be clear on terminology, it is a worm, not a virus. The potential destruction is probably greater, as it can ‘crawl’ around some on its own to an extent. Two things I think have happened that curtailed this big play on our technological pleasures today and perhaps a third one as well.
