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Accused Zotob Worm Author Says Money Was Motive
An anonymous reader writes "Washingtonpost.com has an excerpt of an online interview with "Diabl0", the 18-year-old that Moroccan authorities arrested on suspicion of writing the Zotob and Mytob worms, as well as the Rbot trojan. In the back-and-forth, Diabl0 says his worms "spread only for money" and hints that the motive was receiving commissions from installing spyware on infected computers."
Money.
"Diabl0 says his worms "spread only for money" and hints that the motive was receiving commissions from installing spyware on infected computers."
Because he's stealing THEIR business model! =)
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
"...was receiving commissions from installing spyware on infected computers" Ahem, I had thought that Zotob had removed spyware? odd but true
If we had an infinite number of ScuttleMonkeys typing this story, they would eventually get the grammar correct.
Advice for my fellow geeks: before seeking out that threesome you dream of, you might see what a TWOsome is like first.
Man, it's just so damn Darwinian.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
I'm a moroccan national and I can tell you that prospects are grim for the youth over there. They have been for quite some time and things just aren't getting better.
While this Diabl0 guy was only 18, there is no shortage of university graduates who, after 4+ years of studying, find out that there is no such thing as a job market for them.
The most resourceful and those with affulent families escape to europe and the U.S while those of more modest origins or stronger ties to their country get bitter and are forced to take up any crappy job they can find.
It is inevitable that more cyber-criminals will emerge in Morocco. Cybercafes are cheap and those unemployed folks have plenty of time to devise moneymaking schemes.
Oh, i'm one of those who escaped. Every summer I return, I look and I despair.
Corps here in the USA are constantly allowed to "push the bar" as far as they can
Beyond which, they're acting illegally.
And it's up to state and federal legislatures to redefine what is and is not legal for companies to do. Recent legislation like Sarbanes-Oxley places enormously more scrutiny and burden on large companies. Why? Because a very small number of them pulled some dumb shit, and now everyone who forms a corporation is "evil" until proven otherwise (or, from your perspective, evil no matter what). Presumbly that also includes, say, a band that incorporates to handle their recording expenses and t-shirt revenue, too. Evil, so evil!
Why is is OK for a "capitalistic" company to personally allowed to cost you money/time, yet if a private person does it, it is a "crime"?
Maybe you'll get a lucid answer if you ask a more relevent question. A corporation costs me money when I elect to do business with them, or when I elect public figures that contract with them. They don't really have any other legal vectors by which to "cost" me money. Sort of like the guy deploying worms on the net doesn't have a legal way to waste my time.
Why should a corp be allowed to commit a crime and only get fined yet, if a private "citizen" committed the _same_ crime would get jail time?
Specifically what crime are you referring to? You can certainly cost everyone in a company their jobs, and cost all of the company's investors all of the college-fund money they had tied up in the company's stock... good enough for you? Check with Enron, or Arthur Anderson. People working at those companies, but which had nothing to do with the bad acts of a few people, paid the price. Good enough for you? Other people did go to jail. Good enough for you?
After all, he was looking out for "share holders best interests" to MAKE MONEY
Do you even think about the words you use? MAKING money means producing something, and in a market economy, doing so in a way that finds a willing buyer at a mutually agreed price. Someone sneaking spyware onto an unwitting person's machine sure as hell isn't participating in a market economy, he's a parasite.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
You're a moron. First, where did it say Diabl0 did this on behalf of any corporation?
Second, tell me which "corporation" has legally gotten away with illegally hacking into user computers, then installing a trojan that will allow them to install whatever they want?
Third, WTF does this have to do with the USA specifically? MOST countries today are capitalistic.
It seems you have a beef with USA/corporations/capitalism and are just using any excuse to drag them down.
eTrade SUCKS
...just want to add to my post:
If the USA (and the UK) kept their armies and "intelligence" agencies from fucking around with the rest of the world, the world would be a better and safer place. Iranian oil, Iraqi oil, Venezuelan oil is none of your fucking business. You don't have any right to it.
Yes, you have a near-perfect education system that produces plenty of cannon-fodder (poor and/or brainwashed enough) that your well-funded armies can send to whatever place they want to steal whatever stuff they want.
No, that still doesn't mean you're right.
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