Re: M$ puts bounty out for Blaster and Sobigculprits

[Eric Bowser <ebowser () i-trap net>]

Too true, and I admit anything I write is probably swiss-cheese crap for
several iterations whenever I try something new or improved.

What I was attempting to say is that when you live in the ghetto and get
robbed because you forgot to lock your door, /SOME/ of the blame falls
on you.

Just my view.  I hate to start a flame war or a snowball this topic into
9000 posts, mail me directly if you wish.


On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 12:31, Corey Hart wrote:
> To write flawed code is one thing.  To write code to expose flawed code
> is another thing.  To write code to take advantage of the flawed code and
> to cause damage to machines all over the world is a crime and the person
> who wrote that should be brought to justice.
>
> My 2 cents.
>
>
> Eric Bowser wrote:
>
> > What about a bounty for the original engineer who wrote the flawed OS
> > components?
> >
> > On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 10:02, Vic Vandal wrote:
> > > M$ is offering $250K for info leading to the arrest of those
> > > who released Blaster and/or Sobig.  See the details here:
> > > http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-5102110.html?tag=nefd_top
> > >
> > > One outcome of this will be severely limiting bragging about
> > > pulling off such sploits.
> > > And one would think those actually guilty should be real busy
> > > right now erasing any/all evidence (that they didn't take care
> > > of long ago).
> > >
> > > Maybe M$ should put out a bounty for reporting bugs in their
> > > crappy software without going public instead.  That might be
> > > more effective.
> > >
> > > Peace,
> > > Vic
> > >
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