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A Conference For Malware Writers
tsu doh nimh writes "There is a security conference being held in Mumbai later this year called MalCon, and the organizers say it's the first ever conference dedicated to the 'malcoder community.' Brian Krebs interviewed one of them and got this gem: 'Just like the concept of "ethical hacking" has helped organizations to see that hackers are not all that bad, it is time to accept that "ethical malcoding" is required to research, identify and mitigate newer malwares in a "proactive" way.' Bruce Schneier is speaking at a sister MalCon event in Pune, India two days later, and he said he doesn't agree with the organizer's premise that more malware is needed to build better security tools."
What could possibly go wrong?
Can we nuke the site from orbit?
Take off and nuke the site from Orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
We need to create new, more virulent biological weapons to improve medicine.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
I love it when guys like this try and come off as if they provide some sort of legitimate service, and that they have an actual organized "community."
What's next?
Pedocon: Discussing the tools and tactics of the new generation of pedophiles, to enable parents to better protect their children.
Also, they're having a conference for criminals down at the local police station. Real big conference, trust me. I bet there'll be booth babes.
They should give out free promotional USB memory devices! 100pts. for every attendee you get saying 'Let's see what's on this... oh... what an idiot...!' and facepalming/bursting into flames.
hopefully it really is
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Evelyn Beatrice Hall, re Voltaire
They should hold it outside, under a bunch of large canopies. Then they'd be sure to have a lot of MalCon tents there.
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Isn't this like suggesting that we genetically engineer deadlier flu viruses? Sure it looks stupid in the short term but those of us who survive will have healthier immune systems so we'll be better off!
Right? Right?
Ethical Malcoding: From the people who brought you:
...and many, many more!
Ethical Terrorism
Ethical Oppression
Ethical Genocide
Ethical Cannibalism
Ethical Amorality
Maybe they're hoping that by concentrating enough evil in one room, they'll create a black hole of iniquity that will flush these fuckers down a cosmic toilet.
I don't believe in time. It's a grand conspiracy designed to sell watches.
Yeah. Like more murders lead to better murder investigations.
Unironically carpet-bomb the location to hell and back.
Could it be the roach motel of conferences? Malware coders check in, but they don't check out? One could only hope.
Will this convention have free, open wi-fi as well?
But isn't what you say true. Serial Killers are better murders, and they result in specialized training and expertise on the side of the police, FBI, Scotland Yard.
Is Bill Gates attending ? You know, the guy that's famous for spreading Windows all over the world.
There's got to be a record for the most negative karma in one place.
Malcoder... you mean people who write bad code?
There ain't no party like a Donner Party.
Seriously, the situations are incredibly rare, but I can see in true crisis situations, someone eating the flesh of another person to survive until they can get help/other sources of food, without morally transgressing. I could see a parent, seeing their family on the verge of starvation, giving of themselves (quite literally), so their children could survive. I think such situations could very well be ethical.
* http://malcon.org/2010/workshops/MalConMalwareAnalysis2010.pdf
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If ever a car bomb was an appropriate response to anything, this is it.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Sounds like a great place for the FBI and every other nation's federal law enforcement bodies set up and find out who the a-holes are.
Is buying a Harley Davidson as your first motorcycle since you were 16 at age 49 a midlife crisis issue?
Tickets... check. Passport... check. Baseball bat... check. All set!
Under the guise of "helping citizens to develop better detection and understanding of Weapons of Mass Destruction"
Surely weapons of mass destruction do less damage, if they're better understood, and more people know about what techniques are need to make them and how to get around pitfalls and difficulties in constructing WMDs, right?
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If you like this conference, maybe you'll like the Nigerian Email Conference: http://j-walk.com/other/conf/
... the Toilet of Power!
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If only they'd scheduled it 2 years sooner.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
It is being held at the Palace of Prince Barrister Azeez, but he will need you to send him $5,000 us dollars as security deposit on your room.
Seriously, that's one place where killing of attendees is a perfectly valid reaction of a sane person.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
This is insane. Smart people already understand how malware works. This reminds me of Calvin's dad in Calvin and Hobbes saying "____ builds character" no matter what the thing is. Sometimes things are a negative and they're already fully understood that way. That's the way it is.
Bruce Schneier is right here; there is no need for a conference of malware developers.
"Round em up, Put em in a field, and Bomb the Bastards"