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Accused Zotob Worm Author Says Money Was Motive

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the crime-still-pays dept.

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."

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  1. Re:What is the answer to 99 out of 100 questions? by NiceGeek · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "(Note: I am not gay, but come on now, killing someone just because they are gay? How sick of a "society" do you have to be to do something like that?)"

    Dunno...why don't you ask Matthew Sheppard?

  2. Re:What is the answer to 99 out of 100 questions? by ScentCone · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dunno...why don't you ask Matthew Sheppard?

    I'd say there's a huge difference between a handful of drunk, ignorant idiots stalking and killing a gay guy and the government doing it.

    It actually is interesting to see the same idealogical camp that condemns a killing like Shepard's (as anyone should) preaching non-involvement in "other cultures" and celebrating "diversity." The point, of course, is that there are plenty of "diverse" other cultures that, as a matter of course, would have killed Sheppard and anyone he ever interacted with. There actually are some objectively wrong ways for a culture to carry on. It's that simple. So... why the constant drumbeat for "tolerance" for everything, but intolerance for certain attitudes domestically? Doesn't make those attitudes right, but it makes similar attitudes elsewhere also wrong.

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  3. So, I have to ask... by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So WHY, in your opinion, is Morocco that way?

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    1. Re:So, I have to ask... by mckyj57 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Islam.

    2. Re:So, I have to ask... by __aailob1448 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      You might as well ask why any third world countries are that way. I'm not the right person to ask.

  4. Re:What is the answer to 99 out of 100 questions? by nofx_3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There actually are some objectively wrong ways for a culture to carry on. It's that simple.
     
    No, clearly its not that simple and clearly you are still looking at the situation subjectively. While I think the acts the carry out are disgusting and wrong, I do realize that to them this is a correct way to behave. Sometimes the only way to deal with people like this is to give them a taste of their own medicine, after all even the Bible says "Do unto others"...

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  5. Re:Anti Virus firms will kick his butt by nofx_3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes, but Octopussy is a British word.

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  6. Re:Well of COURSE it was for the money! by yarbo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I met a Finnish girl who moved to Austria but visited her family every Winter.

    I know many Indian immigrants (6+ years in the US) who go to India every Summer.