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Re: Culprit Bio: Perfect Storm Averted or Just Ahead?
From: Henrik Persson <nix () syndicalist net>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:07:46 +0100
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 22:59, Cael Abal wrote:
Hi Henrik, 8086 asm and Forth knowledge, although less common these days, isn't necessarily an indicator of shining intelligence or insight. And as for your 'great knowledge' comment -- the sad reality is this: It really doesn't take a whole lot of skill to implement a Windows worm.
'Great knowledge' isn't the words I'm looking for.. My english was a bit off. What I meant was that sertainly this fellow has some skills.
It's a bit presumptuous to say with any certainty the cvs tag was a plant -- people make dumb/costly mistakes. Personally, I could care less about whether or not the mydoom author is caught -- there are thousands of kids ready to take his/her spot.
Well. I think that this fellow has shown enough thoroughness (from what I read here at full-disclosure. I havent had the time to analyse the worm myself yet) to at least check for dumb and costly mistakes. But I might be wrong - I just think that a person that says "Look! The name 'Andy' is in there! And there is some Forth.. Hm.. If we find a Forth-programmer named Andy - we have him!!" is...well...way off. :) And personally I don't care either. I could care less if SCO or Microsoft gets DDoS:ed.. Likewise, I won't cry if those multinational coorporations loose some money cause they can't handle a few million e-mails ;) -- Henrik Persson <nix () syndicalist net> _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- RE: Culprit Bio: Perfect Storm Averted or Just Ahead? Clairmont, Jan (Jan 29)
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- Re: Culprit Bio: Perfect Storm Averted or Just Ahead? Cael Abal (Jan 29)
- Re: Culprit Bio: Perfect Storm Averted or Just Ahead? Henrik Persson (Jan 30)
- RE: Culprit Bio: Perfect Storm Averted or Just Ahead? Steve Wray (Jan 29)
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- Re: Culprit Bio: Perfect Storm Averted or Just Ahead? Cael Abal (Jan 29)