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That is completely
moronic to act as if he did not do anything but just hex edit the code and
change the name for example on the .exe . He also like a moron had
the infected drones contact his website (which he is registered to) so that he
can see who has been infected to control them. This means that he had more
than just wanting to change the name of an .exe for example, it shows his
intent. Yes you are right about the 7,000 being exploited anyways, and yes
this kid definitely should not get such harsh treatment, but the sad fact is, he
probably will get all of punishment from what someone else did, he is just a
lame kid who should not of took someone else's code to try and be cool first of
all, and now he is paying the price for trying to be cool. I have had some
many people come up to me and tell me they caught the guy that released the
blaster worm and than I have to yell at them and say, "NO they didn't!
They just caught some kid who made a lame variant using the original
worm." Regardless of what he did or didn't do, he will probably get the
blame of the entire thing, guess this will make worm writers a little more
scared and they will start to watch their steps a little more carefully now and
not have the damn drones contact their own website which is registered to their
name.
-SF
I also agree with you. The kid is guilty of
nothing more than "Unethical use of a hex editor". And here's my MAIN
FUCKING POINT SO LISTEN UP ALL OF YOU:
THE 7000 COMPUTERS THAT HE SUPPOSEDLY
INFECTED WOULD HAVE BEEN INFECTED BY THE "ORIGINAL" WORM HAD THEY NOT BEEN
COMPROMISED BY HIS VARIANT FIRST. SO WHAT'S THE FUCKING
CRIME? READ BELOW...
The analogy is this: A scientist drops a
monkey infected with the Ebola virus into a large tank containing 20,000
other monkeys. Some monkeys have been given a shot to protect them from
infection, so as the virus spreads they do not become a carrier.
The outbreak starts at the far west end of the container and is
working its way to the east side, infecting every monkey exponentially as they
all pass it on to their neighbors. One of the
smarter monkeys gets infected and realizes what is
happening. For some strange reason this monkey knows that drinking a
certain liquid (on the floor of the container) will slightly alter the
properties of the virus he has become infected with immediately. He
stirs up the other end of the container by hurling a pile of his own
feces. Now, the outbreak has not reached that end of the tank yet (but
most definitely will in time) and the outbreak is now spreading from the west
and east ends toward the center. After the outbreak has reached its
infection maximum and looking at all of the dead monkeys on the tank floor,
the uninfected monkeys start asking questions as to what the hell happened to
their brothers and sisters. Weeks go by and no one has an answer.
Finally, one monkey overhears a conversation about how one guy threw his
shit all the way across the tank. That's the guy we need to punish they
concluded. They apprehend the monkey on his death bed for throwing his
own shit and causing the outbreak at the east end of the tank, which
supposedly killed 7000 monkeys. They continued looking for the original
infectioner, but the scientist was never discovered. Some of the monkeys
started to blame God for allowing this infection to be possible. "Why
the hell does God want to torture us? We are but mere mortals!",
exclaimed one monkey. "God works in funny ways...", sighed another
monkey.
Kris Hermansen
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 10:39:53AM -1000, Jason Coombs wrote:
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if he made the modifications and gave the modified worm to other people
but
> didn't cause it to infect anyone else's computers, then what crime
is he
> guilty of exactly? criminal misuse of a hex editor?
it
could certainly be argued that the "damage" caused by this copy of
the
program is no greater than it would have been if his home computer had
simply been infected and passed it on in the usual way. in fact,
maybe
he is even the pioneer of a new art form where people, out of respect
for
the rights of the autonmous agent, refuse to remove these programs from
their
computers and use hex editors to tattoo their message onto the worms'
backs.
i can see web sites with worm poetry -- the random juxtaposition of
sentences that trace a particular worm geneaology as it passes across
the
mesh, perhaps even paper-bound volumes.
other than neglecting to
install a program with a genocidal attitude
towards certain processes, what
exactly did this guy do wrong?
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