Bradford Persistent Agent: Electric Boogaloo

I've been discussing this topic with a lot of people over the past week, and it's become something of a cash cow (for real I got 50 hits on my blog on August 6th!, which is a summer record).

Anyway, some of the issues and feelings that people have about this new program include:

• What about Linux users? (as well as people running old operating systems)
  
• How will this affect file sharing?
• Infringement on privacy.
• Possibly steal identity/financial information (I don't think this is likely, but I would want to know if it is possible).
• Will this lead to SkyNet?

Personally I think this is the beginning stage of Skynet. I think that this new program raises a lot of interesting questions, and I'm sure there will be discussions about it in the Fall.