[extropy-chat] Script kiddies are not that bad (was Re: Recipe for Destruction - Joy/Kurzweil NYTimes Op-Ed)

[Dirk Bruere]

On 10/20/05, Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 19/10/05, Dirk Bruere <dirk.bruere at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 10/19/05, The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Alejandro Dubrovsky <alito at organicrobot.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > So which one is it, are people extremely unlikely to
> > > > be evil (less than
> > > > 1 in the shitload of virus writers that have
> > > > surfaced over the last
> > > > decade), are script kiddies extremely unskilled
> > > > (this one still doesn't
> > > > explain a toned down version of 1 which just formats
> > > > the hd), or have I
> > > > just not heard of these famous viri?
> > >
> > > I think it's that even for impressionable youngsters
> > > that want to fancy themselves outlaws, its far more
> > > romantic to be Robin Hood than Hitler. I just hope no
> > > Al Quaeda black hats hang out on your UNIX site.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > The problem these days is organised crime, not script kiddies.
>
>
> Yes, and those people have no incentive to break your machine.
> Stealing your private information, and taking over your machine for
> use as an open relay or maybe DDOS node is much more likely.

 Whatever makes money or satisfies their ideological bent.
The point being, malicious s/w does exist and if there was money in it or
OBL could use it to kill a few million people that's how it will be used.
 Dirk
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