[PLUG] OT, why write viruses?

Paul Mullen pem at nellump.net
Fri Jun 25 20:33:02 UTC 2004


On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 04:48:58PM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> A large percentage of our fellow planetary residents are looking for
> some ideological excuse (An "asshole license" to act like bastards,
> because somehow by tormenting others it makes their own wasted lives
> marginally better.

I think that assessment is the closest to the truth. There are plenty of
really cool, productive software projects the unemploy[ed|able] could be
working on. There has to be some amount of selfish asshole factor at
work with the virus creators.


Paul





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