The Psychology of Virus Writers

securitas writes "BBC Technology reports on the psychology of virus writers and the work of security researcher Sarah Gordon, who has been studying this area for 20 years. ''The stereotype that virus writers are all young teenage boys with no social life, hiding in their basement is not accurate,' she said. In contrast, she said, most virus creators are typical for their age, are on good terms with friends and family and are often contributors to their local community.' The story is an interesting contrast to a previous BBC report about why people write viruses."

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Re:Stereotypes

[Oliver Defacszio]

It is quite normal for teenage boys with no social life(something they have no control over) to hide in their basement.

Oh, baloney. A healthy vast majority of the basement cretins I've known are ostracized because they've got the same "I'm better than you because I hate sports" attitude that makes so many of the Slashbots unlikable, unironically. That's controllable.