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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.
give em the chair! oh wait, just make them use microsoft products for the rest of their lives.
It's like that TV Commercial that's been playing in the States here:
*Woman peeks her head into IT Manager's office*
"Oh, and Bob, I opened that e-mail virus -- just like you told me not to!"
When I was 15 I was like that. I really don't remember why I thought that stuff was cool, it just was. Thankfully I grew out of it.
Maybe middle school/high school health classes will start having anti-lameness speeches. I can imagine it now: "Don't do worms..........mkay?" or "Don't give into the peer pressure to code worms... they might make you feel good temporarily but they're bad in the long run" or even "Just because one of your friends tells you that writing worms is cool don't listen". Lets not forget "Friends don't let friends write worms".
Hey Kids! It's cool to be a skr1pt k1dd13! Just like your uncle Bob says: worms are good, worms are great, write a worm and masturbate!
That should make it uncool enough.
He was referring to big P punishment rather than the little p punishment we are used to seeing in the USA.
'p'unishment = locking a person in a room for a while.
'P'unishment = beating the poor sod with bamboo canes or cutting off his hand or something.
- Toby
Public humiliation always worked well for me!
This is so true. Announce that the virus is going around and that so-and-so user ran it on the PA. Employees will be scared to open anything not sent from someone they know.
Of course, follow up by an email to everyone would be appropriate afterwards.
http://tomgould.com/
I believe these kids are guilty of hate crimes against stupid people.
--Mizerai
YOU DESERVED IT AND MORE. At a minimum, the school should have immediately expelled you. They should have sent letters to surrounding schools to tell them about your treachery. They should have taken out ads in the local newspapers. They should have then patched/fixed their systems; then they should have (and did) call the FBI. The FBI should have (and did) take your stuff after obtaining a warrant. The FBI should have prosecuted you and worked you hard and really fought for a jail sentence. They should have siezed your computer and sold it to pay for expenses incurred.
Sheeittt! I'm 59 and I used to think I knew what over the top meant. Then I read your post. I say again, "Sheeittt!"
The new US Patriot Act (HR 3162) makes creating and spreading virus and worms an act of terrorism. As such King George must require extradition of the offending youths and hold a military tribulan. If israel refuses to give up these kids, then we must bomb Israel at a cost of $1 billion dollars per month to US taxpayers as punishment for harboring terrorists. We must make sure to hit any buildings with big red crosses on them and then deny it. We must kill many civilians and deny it and when US soldiers get killed, we muist blame it on friendly fire.
After a number of these testosterone impaired virus writers share some time with a 6'6" 300 lb lifer that thinks that they are cute; writing viruses will no longer seem so funny. If you have the bandwidth to know how to write a virus, you have the bandwidth to know it is a virtual letter bomb that hurts people. It hurts people by taking away their productive time and denying them the use of the computer equipment that they bought.
To state the obvious, 'You f*** up, you pay up. You f*** with people, you get f***ed with.' What part of that simple truth you don't understand???