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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."
Wait until he rats on the people who pay him, then put them all in the same cell.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I am soooooo, sick of the politicians and their corruption. I personally don't see any "fix" besides a civil war in the USA to blow the shite out of the corrupted politicians.
How much longer should we sit on our fat @sses and let the big corps have privileges that we as private citizens could only dream of? 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?
I personally see nothing wrong with what Diabl0 did. After all, he was looking out for "share holders best interests" to MAKE MONEY, so why shouldn't he be protected just like all the other corps that "just want to make money"?
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land,
it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison
just follow the money, sooner or later it leads to a weak point, finding one weak point leads to the next. Next one corrupt official wonders why he's not getting the money and narc's out the one who is; quickly the well oiled machine starts to spasm and jerk as the institutional knowedge is jailed and the peons start make the same mistakes over and over again.
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I remember a time not all that long ago when the primary motivation for a kid writing a virus was to see his name in the lights or to learn something about technology. I could never really find fault with that, even though what they were doing was clearly misdirected and destructive. At least they were learning something, and being misdirected and destructive is what all kids do almost as a matter of course.
To read this now is both unsurprising and saddening, like the end of an era. A part of me misses the simple pleasure of a BBS, a modem, and people who had to care enough about technology to visit the same places that I was. Reading this story is where the new age of the Internet really hit home for me, though it's certainly been this way for at least a couple of years. The people who care simply don't have their own home anymore, or if they do I don't know where it is. Now that anyone can get on the Internet and the primary motivation for exploring technology is the cash offered by malevolent advertising, I can only sit and be dismayed at what this has all become.
I guess it's all spilled milk and sour grapes for me, though. And I'm sure those who were around at the very beginning, in the late 70s and through the 80s would look at me as a disrespectful babe in diapers for not showing up until the early 90s and sullying what they'd built just as I look upon this jerk as a harbinger of a new generation that just doesn't care.
I don't suppose anyone has come up with a benign version of this, that only does the removal? It'd actually be pretty useful to have a tool like that around, yaknow; a quick viral fix for your clogged home network! I can see it being of great help whenever fixing friends' systems, eliminate some of the potential problems with a quick infection, how poetically perfect!
I remember sigs. Oh, a simpler time!
Personally, I don't have a problem with this.
Do you know why? Because my morals are not their morals.
Their country is (dare I say radically?) different than mine, and as such, I don't have the right to tell them what to do with their laws/morals/culture.
This is the way of the world.
So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
Yes Islam and Christianity get a rap for the actions of a few crazies but people who think that all real Christians/Muslims are happy shiny people are just ignoring the truth.
Ironically, the most extreme Christians are argueably the ones who are being truest to their holy book. If you're a good Chrisitian, you should be following these rules.
Kill witches
"You should not let a sorceress live." (Exodus 22:17 NAB)
Kill Homosexuals
"If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)
Death for Hitting Dad (Islam isn't the only religion that executes it's children)
"Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to death." (Exodus 21:15 NAB)
Death to Followers of Other Religions
"Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed." (Exodus 22:19 NAB)
Kill Women Who Are Not Virgins On Their Wedding Night (Again, Islam is the only religion that kills girls who are curious)
"But if this charge is true (that she wasn't a virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst." (Deuteronomy 22:20-21 NAB)
Anyone who claims to be a Christian but does not follow these rules is picking and chosing the rules they want to follow.
Face facts. These religions are barbaric for one good reason - they are relics from the past. If I invented a religion now, in 1000 years time, no doubt some of my rules would appear barbaric. Even simple things like advocating the eating of animals may be seen as being morally repugnant in 1000 years time.
Don't judge these religions on the actions of their adherents. Judge them by reading the holy books that they claim their god provided them.
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that an historical report is different from a generalized command.
The Biblical quote you give is an historical report of a specific event. The Quran text was a generalized command.
Furthermore, mainstream Christian belief is that the "New Testament" gives the rules for the religion, essentially replacing any given in the Old Testament, which is relegated to being a historical narrative. (note that the 10 commandments are re-iterated in the New). Mainstream Christianity also believes the Bible is subject to interpretation and not necessarily literal truth, fundamentalism is a minority view. Witness current debate within the Christian community over evolution vs. 7 day creation.
AFAIK, mainstream Islam believes in the literal truth of the Quran and Liberal Islam is the minority view.
That's not to say extreme violence hasn't been practiced by Christians claiming Biblical support, such as the Crusades or the Inquisition. I believe most, if not all, Christians would today repudiate those actions. While there are certainly Christians today practicing violence, any doing it in the name of their religion are an extreme minority.
Modern Islamic calls for Jihad and violence against "infidels" are prevalent, although certainly not universal.
As with most things, there are shades of grey. But it seems that the balance shows mainstream (when considered globally) Islam promoting violence against non-believers.
Feel free to correct my understanding, I don't claim to be an expert in either religion.
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