BillK wrote:
On Nov 29, 2007 8:33 AM, Bob Mottram wrote:
My own opinion of all this, for what it's worth, is that the smart
hackers don't waste their time writing viruses/botnets. There are
many harder problems to which an intelligent mind can be applied.
This discussion is a bit out of date. Nowadays no hackers (except for
script kiddies) are interested in wiping hard disks or damaging your
pc. Hackers want to *use* your pc and the data on it.
Well, to be fair, that's a different issue, not the one that the
discussion was really about ;-)
I have no disagreement with you about that other issue, but what I was
talking about (when I started the thread, anyhow!) was the competence of
the "script kiddies" who just want to stage a crude attack to destroy as
much data as possible. If any of those script kiddies somehow got
smart, they could do damage on a scale that would make everyone get
wistful about the good ole days when all they had to worry about were
the criminal gangs setting up botnets.
Those idiots are still there. I just hope they stay idiots.
Richard Loosemore
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