Did you read the paper or just the BoingBoing article? The part about the rootkit and active network defense referenced by the BoingBoing article come from cha

Did you read the paper or just the BoingBoing article? The part about the rootkit and active network defense referenced by the BoingBoing article come from chapter 13 of the paper, which deal with targeted cyber espionage attacks. If Timmy is the target of that section, then Timmy has bigger issues to deal with.