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The Computer Virus Turns 25 in July
bl8n8r writes "In July of 1982, an infected Apple II propogated the first computer virus onto a 5-1/4" floppy. The virus, which did little more than annoy the user, Elk Cloner, was authored in Pittsburgh by a 15-year-old high school student, Rich Skrenta. The virus replicated by monitoring floppy disk activity and writing itself to the floppy when it was accessed. Skrenta describes the virus as "It was a practical joke combined with a hack. A wonderful hack." Remember, he was a 9th grader when he did this."
Malware writers don't give a rat's rear about other laws, why do you think they'd honor patents? Especially when they're usually sitting in countries that don't care too much about foreign patents in the first place.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Best prank i've done is code a little application that takes a snapshot of your desktop, puts it in as background and hides bottom toolbar... sit back and enjoy!
Why was parent modded flamebait? The GP post really was lame and poorly adapted to the current crop of Apple computers. Perhaps because he stated that "the old Mac OS sucked"? Well, back then it did for many reasons including that it wasn't even a preemptive multitasking OS.