This is actually more of an issue with things like e.g. Namecoin; depending on your parsing library, just processing namecoin values can do bad things to your c

This is actually more of an issue with things like e.g. Namecoin; depending on your parsing library, just processing namecoin values can do bad things to your computer. There are some namecoin values out there on the lines of 'namecoind send XXX to YYY'. It seems to me more like the author misunderstood some of the point of the talk; I would rate the botnet command and control angle more worrisome from an Interpol point of view than a local exploit from shoddily written fake Bitcoin software.