The Silicon Jihad

I speculated that the Air Force's mission of cyber-warfare might justify a silicon militia where computer owners volunteer their own computers to be part of wartime American botnets to fight in cyberspace.

Apparently, the jihadis have tried to do this:

After a decade of effort, Islamic terrorists are making slow progress in developing Cyber War weapons. The latest one to appear is a program users volunteer to install on their PC, turning it into a zombie. Such a PC can be controlled by a remote operator for all manner of Cyber War tools and weapons. But this "Electronic Program of Jihad" turned out to be poorly constructed, and not yet ready for prime time.

So I guess my idea isn't fanciful. I assume we'd do a better job of this.