11-05-2003, 01:49 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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Location: Lubbock Texas
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who can we rat out??
i wouldnt mind getting a piece of that 5 million, how about you?
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11-05-2003, 04:01 PM | #3 (permalink) | |
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but i would have second thoughts about ratting them out. especially to Microsoft. i wonder if this tactic will provoke these virus writers into further action? hope not. i think offering a reward for their capture is an interesting strategy. can anyone tell me if its one thats been used (or has been successful) before?
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11-05-2003, 05:46 PM | #6 (permalink) |
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Location: The Woodlands, TX
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hmmm interesting way to try and get rid of the virus problem...
instead of investing 5million into making windows less suseptible to viruses... they put 5 million into getting rid of the people who write the viruses....
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11-05-2003, 06:18 PM | #7 (permalink) |
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Hey for all you know they could engineer holes into the software on purpose.
Imagine we had no more viruses... where would the antivirus industry go? /paranoid (but it could happen...) Btw it's not a 5 million dollar bounty, it's just 5 million dollars in total rewards for catching virus authors. |
11-05-2003, 06:54 PM | #8 (permalink) |
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Location: BEAN_TOWN
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Social corruption as its finest...Powers that be, wanting you to squeal on your neighbor, it sure sounds to me like something a society did about 60 years ago.
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11-05-2003, 11:59 PM | #10 (permalink) |
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hackers only rat out other hackers if they're enemies... and even then, there's a code. you just don't do it. i guarantee if someone rats a hacker out, their lives will be miserable until they die. imagine having several thousand pissed-off hackers all screaming for your blood for betraying them? heh, not a good thing.
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11-06-2003, 06:52 AM | #12 (permalink) |
is Nucking Futs!
Location: On the edge of sanity
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Let's see.
We're Microsoft. We issue hole filled, operating systems. Instead of spending money to write better code, let's chase after the folks who are exposing our crappy code! True marketing genius!
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11-06-2003, 05:16 PM | #13 (permalink) |
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Location: Upper Michigan
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I'd rat them out if I knew who. My computer didn't go down - or our home network for that matter but that was because we took precautions and we have hardware and software firewalls.
Every one of my friends (except my bro who's a computer nut too and took precautions) had trouble. I had to help one and the rest managed to find someone who was able to come help them. These are just small people who don't know much about computers, aren't making money off them or have a small business that makes their computer so very necessary. These people aren't deserving in the least of dealing with this problem. I don't know how programming works now adays - I know Dos and new some C+ but that's it. I'm not up on the new stuff but the way it used to be it was so VERY easy to leave a hole somewhere. I don't see how they could get their programs to be perfectly flawless. Sometimes it does seem a bit set up but from what I know I somewhat doubt that they are planning this sort of thing.
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