The Cryptome site speculates that the Conficker worm will be activated to provide just the pretext DHS needs to seize control of the net.

@ Robert Carnegie: I'm informed only by chance reading; I think what's referred to is the SSL layer is currently broken by man-in-the-middle attacks using false security certificates, perhaps obtained by gov't order. But since M$ accepts 264 Certificate Authorities, there's plenty of opportunity for private parties to obtain a false one too. So you can't trust the yellow field of your browser address (particularly not IE; Firefox uses other CAs); there's no *real* security when you give your #'s over the net. -- Where this differs from *my* distrust of these new-fangled devil's inventions of which no good will ever come, I don't know, but apparently they're now exercised over what I always assumed was the case.

What's specifically wrong with e-commerce, then? I mean, do we have to not tell Amazon our credit card number? What?

If you mean that payment systems have a lot of room for improvement - I agree.