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Would You Hire A Hacker?
theodp writes "A German security company has divided opinion in the IT industry by offering a job to the teen charged with creating Sasser. Silicon.com asks its CIO Jury: Would you hire a hacker? and finds the jury split down the middle, with one IT Director saying doing so would be like hiring serial-killing doctor Harold Shipman to treat your ailing and aged mother."
1. You can never be sure of their moral alignment no matter how much money you pay him
That can equally well be applied to anyone. Most virus writers are kids who do a childish and stupid thing.
I fail to see how that could or should condemn the person for the rest of his life. Sure, if it had been a 45-year old who wrote this virus, I would definitely have a problem. But teenagers are kids. Kids grow up. I certainly know that I did, having done quite a lot of quite illegal stuff as a teenager.
Doing so would provide additional incentive to people who want to add "I wrote Monkey.B" to his resume to get their next job.
I doubt it. You're assuming here that the virus-writer is thinking about the consequences of his actions. If he was, he wouldn't be a virus writer to begin with.
Nobody wants to end up in a life in debt, and that is exactly where virus-writing will land you: Paying off damages for the rest of your life.
(Something which I think is more than steep punishment enough for a teenager.)
Oh fuck off and die. Jesus fucking christ you have no idea how motherfucking sick I am of overweight 43 year old virgins screaming "Blaahhh! Hackers don't break into computers!!! Thats crackers!!"