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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 AstroDrabb · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    No, I don't think "public" execution will do any good here in the USA or in Europe. Should we lower ourselves to the pond scum level of the muslims in Iran such as this:
    Atefeh Rajabi appears to have been a fairly normal 16-year-old: sulky, disobedient, and eager to have sex. In London, those attributes earn lectures from parents and teachers on the importance of acting responsibly and not being offensive. In the city of Neka in Iran, where Atefeh Rajabi comes from, they get you hauled up in front of a judge.

    Atefeh's typical teenage behaviour meant that she was charged and found guilty of "acts incompatible with chastity". The judge in the Islamic court ruled that the appropriate penalty was death. That's right: death. Her sentence was confirmed by Iran's Supreme Court!

    Two weeks ago, on August 15, the 16-year-old girl was _hung_from_a_crane_in_the_main_square_ of Neka, in full public view, in order to keep "society safe from acts against public morality"!

    This was a freakin 16 year old girl!!

    I don't know, maybe being 32, I am "out of touch"? I just never though I would see _any_ society would think it OK to kill a child for doing things a child does such as being curious. I am not extending my emotions to a 17 year old kid who rapes, or kills. To me there is a HUGE difference between a kid who has some experimental sex/drugs/stupidity or is a _little_ rowdy vs. a 16/17/18 year old that KILLS.

    How can _any_ human out there defend killing a child for making an innocent mistake like sexual curiosity? Oh, and the guy involved with here received "75 lashes". So the guy get a couple of licks while the girl gets death?

    Oh, and the sickness of Islam doesn't end there. Two teenage boys - one under 18 - were publicly hanged by Iran for being gay! (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?)

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  2. 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?

  3. 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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  4. 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.

  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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.