Comments on: Sasser Worm Author Confesses

By: stevo

stevo — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Lock him up and throw away the key. No matter how much you hate MS, the incredible costs to the IT industry and the number of companies that are getting fed up with these disruptions to business, puts all IT workers jobs at risk.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Lock him up and throw away the key

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Pisses me truly off to read comment like this. The ones that should go to jail are those consultants that still make companies waste incredible amount of money in licensed sofware that prove so weak when it comes to security matters.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I gotta Agree with the last comment. Consultants are continously pushing Companies with "No Clue" to upgrade their software & servers to "Microsoft", which gives them a nice slice of the Pie. I may be wrong here, but I do know that using products like"Debian" can save large & small businesses a lot of money.

In an ideal world (yeah right) it would be nice if these "Hackers" spent their time on positive coding, something to help developments like Debian.

then again, these hackers keep developers in work....

Vicious cycle.. =)

By: Bryce

Bryce — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Employ his skills in a positive way. Security expert or something. It's a damn shame when great thinkers put their minds to no good.

By: miseldine

miseldine — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

but I do know that using products like"Debian" can save large & small businesses a lot of money.

It's equally the case that Microsoft products can save business a lot of money.

The hackers don't keep developers in work, they simply detract their attention from important development into patching what isn't secure.

The vicious cycle is that more and more development time has to be made into securing products than innovating.

By: pippo

pippo — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

It's interesting to say that XP-SP2 will run under pirated copies too.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hey Miseldine,

I think you misinterpited my comment I am not saying it's a good thing. You are just never going to stop it. of course it is a waste of IT professionals/developers time.

I was actually advocating for hackers to do good in the world.
But i am being realistic, how can you stop a virus when it spreads?.
- put yourself into quarentine or buy a Mac. =) (Joke)

What can you Do?. Absolutely Squat unfortunately. =(

By: Octal

Octal — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

"The vicious cycle is that more and more development time has to be made into securing products than innovating."
Something which has plagued Microsoft developers moreso than say Debian. It can also be argued that Microsoft got themselves into the vicious cycle by innovating first, securing second

By: radman

radman — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

i agree with employing the 18yr old programmer..

why not give him a job where he can develope his skills..

let him do like 300 hours of community service... (=