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Point and Click Cracking
An anonymous reader writes "Washingtonpost.com is running a story about a number of botnets and keylogger operations being controlled by Web-sites with point-and-click type front-end software interfaces. The sites mentioned in the story look like fairly slick PHP pages designed to sort through password data from keylog victims and update infected computers with new code or instructions. From the story: 'The hacking software also features automated tools that allow the fraudsters to make minute adjustments or sweeping changes to their networks of hacked PCs. With the click of a mouse or a drag on a pull-down menu, users can add or delete files on infected computers.'"
I don't get it. If I buy a ridiculously designed car without locks for the doors or ignition, just press-the-button-and-drive, and park it in the dodgiest place it town, you would expect it to get stolen, right? And even if I have insurance, I most likely would not get anything back on a claim, right? In the US you might get away with blaming it on the car manufacturer? While other places you'd just have to thank yourself for the foolishness of buying such a car in the first place, and then parking it next to Fraud-R-Us.
Now tell me, how come this change when you park a flawed, unlocked, and ridiculously designed OS on the Internet? Why is neither the manufacturer nor the user to blame for this?