The dark side of cloud computing

Columnist Andreas Antonopoulos raises an excellent point: When Conficker was spreading like wildfire, many people asked what it was set up to do – but that’s the wrong question. Its purpose was to set up a botnet, a “dark” cloud computing network, if you will. And these botnets can be hired out, in a kind of “infrastructure as a service,” a platform that can have multiple applications. In other words, it’s all about commerce. Read his full column here.