Anti-US Hacker Takes Credit For Worm

Posted by timothy on Monday September 13, 2010 @12:09AM from the sociopath-with-a-heart-of-gold dept.

angry tapir writes "Credit for the "Here You Have" worm (recently discussed on Slashdot), has been taken by a hacker known as 'Iraq Resistance' who says the worm was designed, in part, as a propaganda tool. He said he had not expected the worm to spread as broadly as it had, and noted that he could have done much more damage to victims. 'I could smash all those infected but I wouldn't,' said the hacker. 'I hope all people understand that I am not negative person!' In other parts of the message, he was critical of the US war in Iraq. For a brief period early the worm accounted for about 10 percent of the spam on the Internet."

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Just another victim by kaoshin · 2010-09-13 00:55 · Score: 0, Troll

"Here you have" spread when victims clicked on a Web link and then allowed a malicious script to run on their computer.

The hacker isn't the one causing problems. The "victims" are.
Re:"Anti-US" Hacker? by c6gunner · 2010-09-13 01:59 · Score: 0, Troll

True. And when pretty much 99.9999% of the people who oppose the Iraq war criticize it because "those durn Amerikkkan Neokkkon Fascist hicks are at it again", your bullshit excuse rings very hollow.
Re:"Anti-US" Hacker? by TimSSG · 2010-09-13 02:25 · Score: 0, Troll

So the fact the landing gear of the aircraft hit the building does NOT make it ground zero. Tim S.