Seems like a good FUD creating article. I really don`t see it happening like that, for years 'experts' (who usually work for security companies who you can buy 'XXXX' from to defend yourself) have touted that a massive digital attack/failure is on the way, but is this really viable in this day and age? We are talking about something that takes out Windows/UNIX/mainframes etc... all at once? maybe something like a router (i.e. BGP) virus could do some damage, I remember a report from a few years back showing the key points on the internet that if taken down could do some damage. However, most companies know how to deal with internet outages (as they seem to happen frequently) and also, the majority of companies still don`t rely on the internet solely as they medium for operating (e.g. If G.Es web site is down I don`t think it will be the end of the company), so what are we really going to see destroyed by this? Maybe 1 million AOL users will be distraught at their inability to chat online, but what else? Many organizations do have firewalls, IDS, and anti virus in place, and most of these survive relatively unscathed from the virus attacks we hear about every week (ok, maybe I generalise, but lets say most of the companies where I know folks), so unless some super bug hits the streets I think this is just more scare mongering crap.

Also seems like a push to get through crap like MS trusted computer platform. Maybe stopping Windows from having 2000000000 lines of code would reduce the susceptibility to bugs, but I don`t think providing eveyone with black box computers is the way to go.