On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 18 Jan 2002, at 10:32, Paul Robertson wrote: > > > How do you account for the (unfortunately) numerous IT > > professionals who engage in malicous activity? > > This used to be a mystery to me, too. Now that I've been laid off > so long my UI has run out, I occasionally find myself trying to dream > up some way to derive revenue from writing malcode. > Not that I've actually come close to *doing* it -- my starvation > level is still clearly well above my scruples, and in any case I > haven't come up with a way to make it pay. I just don't find this > particular question as puzzling as I used to....
The point I was attempting to make was that a fairly large number of people running malcode are in the IT sector- so making a "IT badge that allows me to have $foo" club isn't all that much of a discriminator, and therefore is probably too short-sighted to use. I think that less pervasive distribution of attack tools *is* a good thing- I just don't think much of any of the proposals I've seen on the table about regulating distribution via the legal system. I'm glad you haven't succumbed, but sorry to hear your User Interface licenced on a time basis ;) Good luck in searching. Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions [EMAIL PROTECTED] which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
