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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.
I, for one, think that they've already suffered enough.
After all, judging by the virus code, it is almost certain that they had to use Microsoft software to create it.
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Thank you for saying this. It's not the virus makers that bring down networks, it's the people who fall for the same social engineering over and over again and click on the attachment.
I am scaring myself now because I am agreeing with the NRA - I've brought the 'guns don't kill people, people kill people' debate into this as an analogy. I apologise in advance for starting a flame war.
Excellent point! After all, cracking down on drugs with harsh laws has made the drug trade stop.
They're first time offenders who confessed. They're high school students who would otherwise be preparing to be drafted to the Israeli army soon, and the government will not want to disrupt that if it isn't necessary. Finally, they are from a town that is notorious for inducing boredom for its teenagers.
No, no, no! They are T E R R O R I S T S! Come on people, if you let terrorists like these kids off the hook, it's only a matter of time before they start bombing things and mailing anthrax, right? Gotta be tough.
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
If they were palestine kids the israelis would of killed 3 or 4 children, 10 adults, and wounded scores to make a point. Then it would get nasty.
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Treat them like the Palestinians Sharon is attacking. No need to bother with a trial or judge or lawyers, it is much faster to just bomb them with an AH-64 Apache helicopter and then say to TV "they were terrorists". It's not like Palestinians peoples deserve the right to a fair trial or something...
About your link (freekevin.com)
well after reading the site, this guy clearly deserves what he got, and government has actually been pretty easy with him.
What's the big deal of protecting/releasing people whose action conducts to some others suffering and losing their business ???
Ya cracker... Just for the fun of learning. Gimme a break!
After hearing all of you b*tching about viruses and worms and the people who make them, I have one solution for you all:
Switch to Linux or Unix. From what I can remember, only 2-3 virus/worms have been made for these operating systems and even then they didn't do any real damage. Why? Because the people who created Unix/Linux where driven by good programming, not the all mighty dollar.
The GEEK shall inherit the earth...