They may not care what is IN your PC but they want your PC as launch point. Getting control of an address help them hide their attacks. All the need to do is to put a proxy on your machine, and now they are hidden. Local routers may have different rules for different IP's. The attack may require a different protocol that is blocked from some IPaddresses and not others. If an orginazation can control 90% the computers on the net, they can control the world. Evil Axis and Empires need to be stopped :-\Cyber-terrorists don't care about your PC. Hackers have broken into financial institutions' computer systems, and put popular Web sites temporarily out of business with distributed denial-of-service attacks. But this is not the sort of thing that keeps most security experts up late at night. What keeps them awake is worrying about the underlying systems that control the local power grids, the local drinking water treatment facilities, and the gas that's used to heat our homes. These resources are vulnerable and a malicious user anywhere in the world could someday expose them, causing a severe degradation in service. (InfoSec News, 12 Jul)
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