OT thoughts about punishment for the BLaster dude

Kamog · #1 September 19th, 2003, 07:52 AM

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

narf poit chez BOOM · #2 September 19th, 2003, 08:04 AM

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

Karibu · #3 September 19th, 2003, 03:38 PM

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.

Narrew · #4 September 19th, 2003, 06:27 PM

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*

Loser · #5 September 19th, 2003, 06:50 PM

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.

tesco samoa · #6 September 19th, 2003, 07:25 PM

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'

DavidG · #7 September 19th, 2003, 07:29 PM

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Originally posted by Narrew:
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*

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.