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Virus Writers - The Enemy Within
Slob Nerd writes "An interesting read from todays Observer "He's 21, he's got dreadlocks, likes punk bands... and his hobby could wreck your computer in seconds. Clive Thompson infiltrates the secret world of the virus writers who see their work as art - while others fear that it is cyber-terrorism.""
Maybe you like to think that guy is "in" you, but believe me he is not in me, and never will be!!
You're assuming they see society and businesses as good things. Americans, five percent of the world's population consume a third of the world's resources. I mean, you define yourselves as consumers, plagues of locusts do little but consume and replicate. Maybe these guys are the good guys and you're the bad guy for supporting a parasitic society.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
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There are many words there which are corruptions of "normal" words used in reference to modern technology. That doesn't make them wrong. It makes them new.
That would be a marvellous idea if it weren't for the fact that you haven't coined a new word or used an existing word in a new context, you've misspelt an existing word. That makes it wrong, not new.
Here's a word I'd like you to read up about: 'hypocrisy'.
Perhaps you should look up the definition of that word, since the only time that pointing out a common spelling mistake would be hypocritical would be if I were to make one myself.
In this world nothing is certain but death, taxes and flawed car analogies.
The reason your immune system is able to keep you alive is because it's constantly under bombardment by all kinds of nasty bacteria...even the keyboard you're holding right now has thousands of types of bacteria all over it. Without this constant exposure, we would weaken, becoming susceptible to the first bug we caught.
It's silly to go after virus-writers...it's just a natural force that punishes people who write shitty code. If it weren't for viruses, imagine how much damage hackers would be doing now? Viruses are the most visible indicator of the quality of software. Just look at the HL2 code...that happened because valve was stupid enough to use software that's infamous for passing viruses in a high-security environment. There have been warnings in the news for years, and they didn't listen...so they got burned.
Bottom line, don't blame the virus writers...blame yourself for not using secure software....and for not updating your computer in two years.
But there is another kind of evil that we must fear most... and that is the indifference of good men.
If there is no tech work other than writing spam generators and spyware, perhaps you should consider working in another field.
If you want to be fair, I suspect it should
read "Microsoft Windows" or "Microsoft Windows
or Microsoft Office". I doubt there are a lot of attacks
through Age of Empires, for example.
Otherwise, I am completely with you. It should
read "Microsoft Windows virus" and
"Microsoft Windows worm", not "computer worm"
and not "internet virus". Linux, Mac OS X and
the BSDs would get more acceptance, should
Microsoft OS finally get its hard earned infame.
My journal. Mainly about freedom.
the editors here dont have a clue about infosec now do they? look at slashdot. performance over security. mod me down fucktards
Yeah, and graffiti artists are simply filling a niche created by incompetent designers at Acme Brick.
Sorry, but virus writers are vandals. There isn't any "niche" there, there are just punks who feel that screwing up other peoples computers is fun.