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The New Face of Script Kiddiez
An anonymous reader writes "Washingtonpost.com's Security Fix blog has an interesting post profiling the activities of a kid named Witlog who controls a botnet of roughly 30,000 hacked Windows PCs. Even after the authorities manage to shut down the network Witlog uses to control his bots, he pops up somewhere else. From the article: 'Witlog may in fact be the product of a new generation of script kiddiez; the chief distinguishing feature of this generation being that instead of using Web site flaws to deface as many Web sites as possible, these guys are breaking into thousands of home and work PCs and taking them for a virtual joyride, often times all the way to the bank.'"
I don't find brutal corporal punishment or rape to be "funny" or a reasonable solution to botnet operators. History will, hopefully, look back at our barbarous culture, where threat of homosexual rape is a prime deterrent, with abhorrence. It is sad that so many in our society see this sort of thing as not only acceptable, but amusing. I suppose people joked about cutting off the feet of slaves and slowly torturing jews to death as well. May historians link you IP address and name with your post so they can put your face on one of the "savages" in a future documentary about how crude and stupid people were back in 2006.
Oh shut up you self righteous tit!
No.
This is a discussion board and I'll certainly not sit here quietly while morons like yourself advocate physical abuse and rape as appropriate punishments for nonviolent crime. It is wholly unethical and I will not stand quietly by and listen to jackasses like you who probably don't know anything about real pain try to make it sound like a palatable idea.
People respond much better to the threat of pain and embarressment[sic] than they do to words like...blah blah blah
Yeah, if we just executed everyone who we suspected had broken any laws no one would commit any crimes, right. Why don't we rape people who get caught speeding? They are at least threatening the safety of others. It'll sure cut down on speeding too, right?
Have you not noticed that since "Political Correctness" grabbed the western world by the testicles, that life is going rapidly down the toilet ? It was only a few years ago that kids would not have even dreamt about knocking over a little old lady for her money. Now it happens.
Ahh yes, the "good ole days" fallacy. Here's a hint buster, the good old days were old, but they were never good. Every generation has bitched about how values are declining and violent crime increasing and the world coming to an end as the younger generation comes into power. Quit yer bellyaching. Violent crime is decreasing not increasing. Your argument is complete bunk unsupported by the facts.
Kids these days don't know what is right and wrong for the simple reason that wrong is no longer associated with pain or embarressment[sic].
Bullshit. Most of the time people have done things that are unethical they have been rewarded, not punished. Pain and embarrassment has always been more likely to be the lot of the "good." Rape is itself wholly unethical but the rapist is not the one suffering. Endorsing unethical practices in the hopes that they will scare people into behaving ethically is the pinnacle of stupidity.