OT thoughts about punishment for the BLaster dude
 

I haven't seen anything lately about that kid they nailed that helped spread the BLaster virus. Now, granted I am an old geezer, but I am really tired of these punks F-ing with my computer, if I want something loaded, I will load it.

So what do you all think this kid will get, this seemed to be one of the worse virus, alot of money and head aches. I know that this might be a slippery slope, but that kid since he is 18 be sent to Cuba with all the other terrorists, make him coll his heels a few years then maybe be given a trial, a military one.

More than likely he will be given a slap on the wrist.

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Didn't we use to send people to "The Dry Tortugas?" I think that is now what they call the Cayman Islands. I am probably wrong about that. Anyway they sent the doctor that gave aid to John Wilkes Booth there. We need some sort of penal colony island thingy to send people to. It just seems like there isn't much of a deterent anymore for small but costly crimes. I don't think he deserves a butt raping federal facility but you know maybe we really should start making examples of these people!

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Oh I think 10 years in a crappy state lock up with some big pervert of a cell mate called Bubba Butt would be good for him http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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I heard a line from a movie: "It doesn't matter how ugly your cell mate is, you'll be facing the other direction anyway!"

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I don't condone what the idiot did, but the one they got is a scapegoat. I read that he was only responsible for a small fraction of the virus spreading. But now that they've got this kid, how much do you want to bet we'll never find the one who really started it? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I read that it had been tracked to a mainland subnet belonging to APN. If it came out of China, we will never be able to run the a$$ (government?) to ground.

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maybe chain gangs breaking rocks again? nothing like actual work.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well then better start sending all the sneaky corporations to jail then. I too hate crap on my computer but 100% of the crap that gets into my computer is from scummy spyware, spam and such. Not to mention the crap MS puts on with windows that I don't want.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No doubt more time than if he'd gone down to a bar got drunk and beat the living crap out of someone and killed him. Gotta love the legal system.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hmm I wonder how much money was lost. One thing is certain is that companies always totally exagerate the amoutn lost by such things. Ever hear how much some companies claimed to have lost as a result of Keven Mitnick's hacking? It's a f-ing joke.

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Yeah, they will probably never catch the real people who create these worms.

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personally, i've had entertaining thoughts like disolving corporation's if they lie once.

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If the guy has any brains, he will co-operate with government and get few years sentence of "Do not touch computers" after which he will go into some company for IT security job or work for government to catch other crackers.

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I doubt they will do much to bim, especially if he only had a minor part in it. What I dont get is people dont seem to care about "other people" properity. I would never F with my buddies computer, because I wouldnt want anyone to come around messing with mine. Must be the old fashion value's again *sigh*

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This kids problem is that he isn't likely to have anything to offer the government. He's not any kind of skilled hacker, all he did was change a already present virus so that the filename was, instead of MSBLast, an 'anatomical reference'. Then another varianbt where it chagned the filename to his own dang handle. Not too bright...

In all likelyhood the computers that got infected by his variant would have been infected by the original MSBLast anyway.

Really he made a few real, real stupid mistakes. That's all.

Still, we can't let people think they can get away with this kind of nonsense. So burn him. He's a witch.

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I think he should be forced to code for MS for a few years.

That will dumb him down a bit.

How about MS stand up and take the hit on this and all their other 'security holes'

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think people care. It's just that the BLaster worm (which I did detect on my computer) and viruses in general are a pretty minor annoyance when compared to all the spammers (exercising their 'right to advertise their company') and companies who F with my computer.

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i have been thinking about spam.

It is a legit business and people do use it.

What i think is that people need to learn how to use filters properly.

I have filters set up on my email properly now and now I am getting only 1 email every few days. So I update the filter.

Spam works as it makes money for those involved. If it did not then it would not happen.

It is an offset to the internet as it should be. I still despise the Spammer. But they did teach me how to use my email filters properly.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Giving spammers credit for teaching you how to use e-mail filters properly seems a bit like giving virus writers the thumbs up for teaching you how to use your virus scanner. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Man if you've got filters that work 99.9% of the time then you are heck of a lot smarter than I am. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

It may be a legit business now but IMHO it should not be. I suspect if sent some really hard core porn to the 6 yr old girl who lives next door I'd end up in jail. But if I sent it by e-mail it would be a legit business. IMO it's way past time to ban this kind of crap.

[ September 19, 2003, 21:07: Message edited by: DavidG ]