Re: Shower thoughts

[Dan Moniz <dnm () pobox com>]

Brian Caswell wrote:
> On Dec 28, 2005, at 11:44 PM, val smith wrote:
>
> > would you want to use said malware?
>
> I can think of a rather good argument for and against using public 
> malware in a hypothetical 'get your daughter back from the druggie porn 
> star ex-wife and save yourself from sure death alla breve Swordfish' 
> situation?
>
> For:
>
> Two simple words "plausible deniability".  If a zillion people use the 
> same malware, its hard to say who did what.  Malware is 
> finger-printable.  Why leave your fingerprints when you can leave 
> Elvis's?  Be the ghetto smurf.
>
> Against:
>
> If its known, it can be found.  Maybe not by the "public", but by 
> someone.  Having your malware usage "found" raises the risk at getting 
> caught.

val's original question could also be written:

s/malware/exploits/

and/or:

s/malware/scripts/

and the answer there has been both yes and no, but the only part we have 
ever really cared about was if "yes" case ever existed, which it does 
(e.g. the existence of script kiddies depends on scripts).


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