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This sounds dangerous... (Score:2)
When a computer goes "bad" and starts to hurt others, the first member to spot it spreads the word to all the other members, who can protect themselves against the bad computer in advance.
Urm... what if a bad computer starts to badmouth other, good computers? Soon enough, the whole of internet will go down, and that'll be the end of ThreatNet.
I'm sure the blackhats will start attacking ThreatNet, as soon as it starts to be significant in fighting the zombie networks.
That's all covered (Score:1)
The operator of the network is responsible for securing the network.
And there isn't going to only be one giant network of course.
So it's more of an operational problem at this point, and we'll see how well things scale...