BLaster/Lovesan has a sibling now.

[Captain Kwok]

I can tolerate a lot of things that annoy me, but these stupid kids who create this stupid viruses and worms really irk me! What the heck are they trying to prove anyways? I think they should use their skills for something useful...!

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Captain Kwok:
I can tolerate a lot of things that annoy me, but these stupid kids who create this stupid viruses and worms really irk me! What the heck are they trying to prove anyways? I think they should use their skills for something useful...!

The problem is the perception of the peole doing it is that it's not a big deal, merely a nuisance. They think of it as a challange, or perhaps a way to get noticed and get a job in IT security or something like that. Even if they catch them the penalties are minor, since the damage done to anyone particular person is typically not that serious. But we need to change our view of it as a culture, and nothing does that better then the attacks themselves.

I would support a very light sentance for anyone writing or distributing a virus. Say maybe one hour in jail, for every person affected!

The first time one of these pinheads gets convicted of 12 million counts of malicious tampering sentanced to 12 million consecutive one hour prison terms the rest of them might think twice about doing it themselves.

Geoschmo

[ August 13, 2003, 20:19: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by Richard:
If you post stuff like this you need to post a link. I am having a hard time finding this, even on kaperskys site.

http://www.theinquirer.net/

There ya go

[rdouglass]

Originally posted by geoschmo:

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Originally posted by Captain Kwok:
I can tolerate a lot of things that annoy me, but these stupid kids who create this stupid viruses and worms really irk me! What the heck are they trying to prove anyways? I think they should use their skills for something useful...!

The problem is the perception of the peole doing it is that it's not a big deal, merely a nuisance. They think of it as a challange, or perhaps a way to get noticed and get a job in IT security or something like that. Even if they catch them the penalties are minor, since the damage done to anyone particular person is typically not that serious. But we need to change our view of it as a culture, and nothing does that better then the attacks themselves.

I would support a very light sentance for anyone writing or distributing a virus. Say maybe one hour in jail, for every person affected!

The first time one of these pinheads gets convicted of 12 million counts of malicious tampering sentanced to 12 million consecutive one hour prison terms the rest of them might think twice about doing it themselves.

Geoschmo

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I think 1 minute would be OK as well....

12,000,000 / 60 = 200,000 Hours
200,000 / 24 = 8333.3333... Days
8333.333 / 365 = 22.83 Years

That seems appropriate...

[Phoenix-D]

"The first time one of these pinheads gets convicted of 12 million counts of malicious tampering sentanced to 12 million consecutive one hour prison terms the rest of them might think twice about doing it themselves."

A life sentance for computer viruses? Harsh.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
A life sentance for computer viruses? Harsh.

The problem will not go away unless you make the actions have appropriate repurcussions. This isn't some hacker sneaking into websites without permission. This is a serious crime with serious damage to the victims, there should be a serious penalty to the criminal as well.

[Richard]

True but the real problem is people need to take security serious. This exploit has been out for almost a month.