of their way to help me understand, to read drafts of the story as i was writing it to correct my faekz, to help me better understand the story to tell because i felt it was important to the story. >> i wanted to ask you for your, i guess -- mark, what have you been saying about the state of -- the state of security affairs in cyberspace as you go on your book tour and i want to get your gauge. what was conficker an indication of in terms of where we are in terms of having cyberspace be secured in are we entirely out of control? where are we? >> i think tj can answer probably better than i. but my impression was and i was really surprised to learn it, how vulnerable the internet itself was to a threat of a botnet of this size. and it seemed to me that the very nature of the internet which grew out of sort of the late '60s, early '70s utopian spirit of freely sharing data and at the time, you know, primarily by academic researchers and scientists failed to really adequately consider how the very openness of the internet which is such a boon to the world could also be a tremendous vulnera