Eliezer S. Yudkowsky writes:
> You know that 25% of the traffic on some corporate networks is NT
> machines chattering to each other, right? Do you really think that's
> just because of Microsoft's lousy software?
Of course we knew it all along:
http://www.google.com/search?q=antichrist+666+William+H.+Gates+III&num=1
Still, packet streams exchanged between nodes of a budding AI should be densely encoded, and hence have a relatively high entropy.
Still, node infection should make a distinctive pattern in traffic change. If router need any smarts, it would be screening for changes like this. Of course this selects for sneakiness...