See, this is why we can't have nice things. Some jackass has to go and build the excuse that government will use in the future to erase the freedom of the net.
Also, WTF is this supposed to mean:
"'I walked up to a three-star general on Wednesday and asked him if he could help me deal with a million-node botnet,' said Rick Wesson, a computer security researcher involved in combating Conficker. 'I didn’t get an answer.'"
Setting the goal was not the problem here: the problem was the way they chose to achieve that goal. Building better cars might, rather than doing everything to sell crappy ones, would have had a much better chance for success.
Maybe this whole article is sarcasm. It makes more sense that way.