Slashdot Mirror
Four Kids Confess to Goner Worm
imrdkl writes: "4 kids in Israel have confessed to writing and distributing the Goner worm, according to Fox."
Yet another annoying worm comes and goes, wasting countless IT hours, to say nothing of bandwidth. The kids face up to five years -- of course since they aren't in the U.S., they might actually be punished.
I'm a kid (Senior in High School...) and I've seen kids to stupid things (I've done some stupid things myself too). These things should NOT be punishable by 5 years (unless they are violent). Kids are kids, and then they grow. Putting them in jail for years on end isn't going to make them grow up any faster.
In the US, these same kids can just as easily steal a car, get drunk, and run you over while running a red light. Guess what? With a good plea-bargain, they'll get off in 5 years too.
What's more important, 5 years in the slammer for stupidity or 5 years in the slammer for killing someone? Get your priorities straight people...
It's because they're fucking JEWS! Need any further explanation?
88
What would we think if real damage had been done? The hack was made easy by M$'s complete lack of security, and it did not do much damage because no one really trusts an M$ platform. But what if this had been a super new BIND attack with a nasty payload? Suppose it had installed backdoors in bank accounts that had been used to funnel money out of accounts?
At the very least, they should be held liable for the monetary damage. What they did was as deliberate and damaging as arson. Why not put a lien on their paychecks for years to come, payable to anyone who can prove damages?
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
I think there are a few others you should be flogging:
Flog your users for being so fucking stupid!
Flog Microsoft for creating such insecure software. (Why doesn't it put up bells and flashing lights when a dummy clicks an executable?!?)
Flog the nosepickers for being such pricks. Little shits should go find something useful to do with their lives instead of pissing off the world.
--
Don't like it? Respond with words, not karma.
M$ outlook allows you to disable all exicutable content from being sent through the mail. You also could easily have setup Exchange to filter out those messages.
In other words, its your own damn fault, and that of your users.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
hmmmmm, I wonder if the City of Largo had any problems with this? Or am I just adding insult to injury? ;-)
'Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson...'
I'm sorry, doing something stupid when you're 18 does not justify academic and professional murder nor is it suicide in those respects. You're going way too far overboard in your idea of what consitutes punishment for my offenses.
Bullshit. An 18 year old has a fully develop awareness of right and wrong, both legally and ethically.
First of all, I was a paying student. The money I put into the university system there made those machines run. I had vested interest, so that lessens the severity of the intrusion. If you trespass somewhere on a college campus, as a student, they don't convict you of a felony. They realize you're a college student and you're not only stupid, you're probably just goofing around. They slap you on the wrist, send you home. End of story. They do not kick you out then tell the rest of the world what you did so that no other schools accept you.
Bullshit. Just because you are a "paying student," that does not entitle you to ravage the place as you see fit. I don't care if you gave them a billion dollars, private property laws are still in effect.
The FBI was poised to destroy my life in countless conceivable ways. If I cannot acquire an education and hence live a professional career as a computer scientist, there's not much else I could do at this point. The life I have always wanted would be unreachable. So I cost the university a few man hours patching a few systems that had obvious security holes. I'm sure they made some student do the patching (which I informed the admins needed to be done, which is how I got caught - go benevolence) for free.
See, here's the fundamental problem: you think the world owes you the right to fulfill your dreams, so that's how you justify your actions. Again, Bullshit. Go join the legions of people flipping burgers at McDonalds. There are literally billions of people in this world who never see their dreams fulfilled, what makes you so special?
As someone in IT management, I can tell you right now, I wouldn't hire you. Not because you had an "incident" when you were 18, but because you aren't enough of a man to accept responsibility for your actions.