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.""

Comments

"from the dept."

[PollGuy]

Think that's code for "From the >/dev/null dept."?

Re:Anyone ever seen well written english?

[Shisha]

Oh dear, this thread really exposes the state of the Slashdot community: Grand-grandparent can't use adverbs properly, grandparent makes a typo, while correcting someone's grammer and finally the parent:

I assume it's not a typographical error.

shows that he has little clue about the fact, that typography is about designing thing containg text in such a way, that makes them aesthetically pleasing.

The question now is, of course, what have I screwed up? :-)

Re:Embellishment

[AndroidCat]

Allow me my rose coloured glasses. I might suspect that all news stories are equally flawed, but it's only the "teenage haxor angst" ones that I know are flawed. :^)

News stories are definitely like sausages and laws--never ever watch any of them being made.

+1 Interesting

[eugene ts wong]

You really do have an interesting point. If sending a virus to my computer can be called art or intelligence or cleverness, then can kicking in the virus writer's knees be considered art or cleverness? After all, the kicker is just exploiting a the weakness of the kickee, in the same manner that the virus writer is exploiting a weakness of someone else. It would be artistic because it would be sending a message, & it would displaying the human body in a way that isn't usually done. It would certainly get the kickee to think.