Interesting link, fobotcso. What is truely worrying is that
(a) All this functionality is built in to Windows (and much more to come) without any of the safeguards that UNIX provides to stop it being abused.
(b) 99+% of people treat their PC as no more complex than a toaster and never bother to understand what it does.
(c) The ISP's don't seem to give a damn.
(d) Always-on ADSL is just around the corner...