Why has nobody either sent out a worm to patch machines, or created a script to patch the sender of a worm?
Someone did do exactly that a few years back and instead of thanks.. he got a few years in jail. (mind you he wasn't entirely innocent in regards to other hacker like activities, but his heart was in the right place)
"The worm that sent Max to jail was programmed to close a security hole that was being exploited by another worm that was on the loose at the time."
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,44007, 00.html -- a wired refernece to this particular incident, because they were the ones to first mention the tarpit
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Why has nobody either sent out a worm to patch machines, or created a script to patch the sender of a worm?
, 00 .html -- a wired refernece to this particular incident, because they were the ones to first mention the tarpit
Someone did do exactly that a few years back and instead of thanks.. he got a few years in jail. (mind you he wasn't entirely innocent in regards to other hacker like activities, but his heart was in the right place)
"The worm that sent Max to jail was programmed to close a security hole that was being exploited by another worm that was on the loose at the time."
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,44007
Security is tricky from either side of the fence.