Something missing from the parallel

Post #139,635 by Silverlock 2/3/04 4:49:43 PM Reply	Something missing from the parallel Where's the sabatage? You would expect the offshore sites to be hit with DDOS attacks and destructive viruses (virii? Who cares) daily. ----------------------------------------- "If you don't vote, it's your fault!" jb4
Post #139,649 by dmarker 2/3/04 7:18:55 PM Reply	Was thinking of this today - the new saboteurs are already among us - I think that the hacker cult is the modern equiv to the French Saboteur These are the modern worker equiv who look like adopting the moral rebellion against 3rd world outsourcing and automated software tools that may eventually diminish their employment opportinities. The reason it seems this way is because of the so called justification of this latest virus as being done to punish 'evil' SCO for their dastardly greed & avarice re Open Source & Linux. Isn't this virus a 'clog' in the works for SCO ??? Doug Marker
Post #139,652 by inthane-chan 2/3/04 7:54:16 PM Reply	Red herring. The SCO attack, I'm certain, is there just to distract from the real purpose of the virus, which is to backdoor XP computers for spammers. No hard proof, but it feels that way to me. "I'll stop calling this crew 'Orwellian' when they stop using 1984 as an operations manual." - J. Bradford DeLong
Post #139,657 by Silverlock 2/3/04 8:50:35 PM Reply	That seems a good guess I think another reason we haven't seen a destructive worm yet is it would impede the further dissemination of worms. Joe wormwriter thinks to himself- "I could make this devastating and bring down multiple thousands of systems. But how could I tell If I'm the best unless I leave a 'clean' field for others to show their wormwriting skills on?" That or how much money is expected from the spammer-patrons. ----------------------------------------- "If you don't vote, it's your fault!" jb4

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