Sent from my iPhone On Apr 17, 2011, at 13:08, [email protected] wrote:
> Question : Why does the Web allow idiots to produce debilitating viruses > without > severe punishment for the hackers who create such things ? To answer your potentially rhetorical question: anonymity. Most public malware is distributed via a chain of anonymous websites, so it is difficult to track the original creator. And even when law enforcement can find the starting point, it is a pseudonym at an Internet Cafe in a Baltic Republic where there aren't any cybercrime laws or extradition treaties. :-( -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
