Michael Mooney releases another worm: Law Enforcement / Intelligence Agency's do nothing

Sat Apr 18 02:07:20 UTC 2009

I get it now... Chaim Rieger = netdev
Nice trick.

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Steve

On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Chaim Rieger wrote:

> And I want cnet to not report this crap.
>
> They glamorise it.
> ------Original Message------
> From: andrew.wallace
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> To: n3td3v
> Subject: Re: Michael Mooney releases another worm: Law Enforcement / Intelligence Agency's do nothing
> Sent: Apr 17, 2009 18:38
>
> So if Al-Qaeda blow up a shopping centre and the guy who masterminded
> it turns out to be 17 he gets a job in MI5?
>
> OH MY GOD.
>
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Jack Bates <jbates at brightok.net> wrote:
>> andrew.wallace wrote:
>>>
>>> I want this individual made an example of and im not joking.
>>>
>>
>> And I'd like an example made of companies that ignore reports of security
>> flaws and leave their customers open to such worms; not to mention giving
>> the impression to misguided teenagers that the only way they will be heard
>> is to release a worm.
>>
>> Historically, I believe some companies have ignored security concerns until
>> someone (sometimes non-maliciously) released a worm. Of course, even
>> non-malicious worms can have unpredictable results which result in
>> catastrophic behavior. The earliest examples predate my residence on the
>> network, but I've read a small bug made them extremely bad.
>>
>> Jack
>>
>>
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