Re: I love you Author evidence ?

[BlueBoar () THIEVCO COM (Blue Boar)]

Joe wrote:
> On Sun, 7 May 2000, Jordan Dimov wrote:
>
> > But anyway...  How important is it really to know the author?  And now the
> > FBI is tracking the worm?  Come on, give me a break.  Someone on
> > securityfocus.com said it best - busting 15 year old script kiddies just
> > makes us all look stupid.
>
> Please tell me you're not serious? How on earth can busting someone that
> caused this much damage be considered stupid?
>
> Not busting them, and busting them -hard-, means the next bored 15 year old
> that considers doing something like this will have no reason not to.

OK, I let this through because it's only fair to allow dissenting
opinion after I let through the previous one.  We won't be having
a discussion here about what is proper punishment.  I thought the
evidence presented about who the author might be was interesting, but
I'm going to kill the rest of this thread.

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