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Symantec Claims They Knew About Slammer In Advance
truthsearch writes "Wired is reporting 'Symantec claims to have identified the Slammer worm that ravaged the Internet during the last weekend of January hours before anyone else did. Symantec then shared the information only with select customers, leaving the rest of the global community to get slapped around by Slammer.' I'm not bothered I didn't know Slammer was coming, but Symantec has a moral responsibility to inform the public if it thinks millions will be affected." It isn't clear to me how Symantec could know, hours in advance, about a worm which took ten minutes to spread throughout the entire Internet, unless they had something to do with its release. Update: 02/14 16:54 GMT by M : Wired has their math wrong; Symantec apparently had at most 20-30 minutes of early warning. Symantec claims in this press release that they discovered the worm "hours before it began rapidly propagating".
gah. You are ridiculous, ignorant and shallow.
The minimum set of morals any citizen or corporation must subscribe to are those outlines by the state and federal law.
WRONG. They had a LEGAL obligation to report this. Releasing a virus onto the internet to infect other computers is a FELONY -- a CRIME. If you witness a crime and don't call 911, you're an accessory to the crime. Symmantec had a LEGAL obligation to report this obvious CRIME to the authorities. Because they didn't, they are an accessory to the crime.
social sciences can never use experience to verify their statemen
I knew about it 6 months ago, back then I decieded to apply the hotfix. This is a sys admin problem anyone who had this worm should learn to patch their systems.