And I want cnet to not report this crap. They glamorise it. ------Original Message------ From: andrew.wallace To: nanog@nanog.org To: n3td3v Subject: Re: Michael Mooney releases another worm: Law Enforcement / Intelligence Agency's do nothing Sent: Apr 17, 2009 18:38
So if Al-Qaeda blow up a shopping centre and the guy who masterminded it turns out to be 17 he gets a job in MI5? OH MY GOD. On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Jack Bates <jba...@brightok.net> wrote: > andrew.wallace wrote: >> >> I want this individual made an example of and im not joking. >> > > And I'd like an example made of companies that ignore reports of security > flaws and leave their customers open to such worms; not to mention giving > the impression to misguided teenagers that the only way they will be heard > is to release a worm. > > Historically, I believe some companies have ignored security concerns until > someone (sometimes non-maliciously) released a worm. Of course, even > non-malicious worms can have unpredictable results which result in > catastrophic behavior. The earliest examples predate my residence on the > network, but I've read a small bug made them extremely bad. > > Jack > > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile