SCO Offers $250K Bounty for MyDoom Author's Arrest

Performer Guy writes "This SCO press release indicates that they are offering a $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest & conviction of the MyDoom DDoS worm authors. Let's hope they catch them. Not merely because MyDoom is one of the most mindless attacks on our internet infrastructure in memory, but also when they pay up it'll be less cash for SCO's litigation engine." Thanks to Tin Foil Hat and prostoalex for pointing out links at ComputerWorld and CNET, too. Related to this: stealth.c writes "Bruce Perens has written a letter to the Open Source community, discouraging us from cheering on the MyDOOM virus, as it would falsely implicate the FOSS communities and almost certainly cause the success of the virus writer's mission of discrediting these movements. This letter is also posted on NewsForge and on Groklaw." Unfortunately, with columns like this one blaming the worm on "some ticked-off Linux fan", it needs to be said.

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Re:The message from Bruce Perens

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Bruce can eat me. I am cheering on any and all attacks on SCO, legal or illegal. Frankly I have wondered often why SCO is not the attack of repeated DDOSing. After all, linux is the operating system of choice of the mischievious computer owners of the world because the most interesting networking tools are written for linux; it simply has the most inertia.

Don't get me wrong, I think that any virus/trojan is wrong. I certainly wouldn't choose this method to attack SCO, nor would I suggest it to others. But since it's happening (ostensibly) I intend to enjoy it.