"I think overall we've done pretty good, even when MafiaBoy took down half the internet, you know, Amazon and eBay and that, we didn't go down, we were still up."

The attack he refers to was more than a decade ago, and the security vulnerability MafiaBoy used to "[take] down half the internet, you know" was a Windows flaw. For crying out loud, the kid did his time and published a book in the intervening period.

I could swear there have been other -- less idiotic, and far more profitable -- botnets in the intervening decade. I wonder where I might look something like that that up?

So who is the pulitzer candidate rocking his skills for ZDNet and getting the inside scoop?

Josh Taylor travelled to Tech.Ed as a guest of Microsoft.

Facepalm.