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Via BuilderAU, our online partner at the conference, the thrilling, fascinating and disturbing story that suggests the most powerful supercomputer on earth (and that means ever) may be a botnet, of PCs infected with the Storm Worm.

Distributed processing applications like SETI@home have set a precedent for such massive, parallel systems, but one particularly worrying aspect of this system is that it could potentially make breaking many forms of previously secure encryption at least feasible.

Another indicator of how important security is, not just in terms of anti virus apps we might run on our PCs, but more importantly, that built into our systems, whether they be an operating system, or a Rails, PHP, or other web app.