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Re: Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect


From: Rob Carlson <rob () vees net>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:52:16 -0400

On Friday, Aug 29, 2003, at 11:23 America/New_York, Charles Ballowe wrote:

Interesting -- the net cost of the worm is actually a net $0.00. For every penny that a company chalks up as a cost to the worm, some other company
must be chalking up the cost as a profit from the worm.

Corporate inefficiency is a cost. If a knowledge worker is sitting at a useless computer for 4 hours, that's a cost that doesn't easily translate into someone else's gain.

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Rob Carlson  rob () vees net  http://vees.net/

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