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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Silly woman

[Ricin]

She's afraid of losing her job so she needs to produce some human interest/tech/psychology story for the human interest/tech/psychology niche in today's conventional publishing business which is under a lot of strain.

So she don't mind totally contradicting herself if the editors don't mind. It keeps the ink , eh electrons, rolling.

Or she's even more feeble minded than one would expect and changes opinions and well studied ("for over 20 years") conclusions easily.

Considering that she works for Symantec all of the above could be true. WTF cares. This is non news by non journalists about non people doing non science. Mkay? :)