Why Worm Writers Stay Free

savaget writes "There is an interesting Wired article explaining why worm writers are getting scott free despite their destructive deeds." Nothing really new: overworked law officials, bragging worm writers, you do the math ;) I still find it amazing. The bandwidth wasted by a successful worm is gigantic. To say nothing of time and disk space.

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stupid thiefs

[tripletwentie]

Talk about stupid people, take a look at the links of stupid criminals. It's pretty amusing.
stupid bank robbers
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Re:They aren't terrorists!

[cburley]

The one flaw in your plan is that the folks that make these worms[...]don't have a great set of computer skills, outside of those needed to find holes. It's a bit easier to find and exploit holes then it is to find and patch those holes, so the assholes will always have the advantage.

Your logic has too many holes.

Or perhaps you can explain how a particular kind of hole will always have an advantage due to people who need to find and exploit holes in general?

Maybe it's just a matter of convincing them that they, or at least each other, are instances of a kind of hole, thus encouraging them to find and exploit each other?

;-)