Raid/Dustin Cook & His Twisted Logic Regarding His Spreading Viruses
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From: Peter Foldes on 18 May 2010 11:59 Same answer as to your above post -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. http://www.microsoft.com/protect
From: FromTheRafters on 18 May 2010 20:59 "Dave U. Random" <anonymous(a)anonymitaet-im-inter.net> wrote in message news:fc64539fdc98c6ba4231d9b110479d4d(a)anonymitaet-im-inter.net... > (Raid/Dustin Cook proves again that he does not write and spread > viruses > simply for intellectual curiosity. In this post he offers his viruses > to other virus writers/spreaders so they can spread them. His > sociopathic lack of a conscience and the skewed reasoning resulting > from > his ugly sickness do not see this as "spreading". Because it isn't. Spreading is what viruses do. For instance it can be said that a virus can have a polymorphic spreading mode. I would say "distributing" or "sharing" fits better. For instance, source code doesn't spread but gets distributed or shared. Of course accusing RAiD of sharing just doesn't have the same "bite" as accusing him of spreading malware. Once the author relinquishes sole custody of the code, anyone with malice (and possession) can unleash it upon the world. I think the author must share in the responsibility....having written it.
From: FromTheRafters on 18 May 2010 22:45 "Dustin Cook" <bughunter.dustin(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:Xns9D7CE4B344607HHI2948AJD832(a)69.16.185.247... > "FromTheRafters" <erratic(a)nomail.afraid.org> wrote in > news:hsvd6e$vej$1 > @news.eternal-september.org: > >> "Dave U. Random" <anonymous(a)anonymitaet-im-inter.net> wrote in >> message >> news:fc64539fdc98c6ba4231d9b110479d4d(a)anonymitaet-im-inter.net... >>> (Raid/Dustin Cook proves again that he does not write and spread >>> viruses >>> simply for intellectual curiosity. In this post he offers his >>> viruses >>> to other virus writers/spreaders so they can spread them. His >>> sociopathic lack of a conscience and the skewed reasoning resulting >>> from >>> his ugly sickness do not see this as "spreading". >> >> Because it isn't. Spreading is what viruses do. For instance it can >> be >> said that a virus can have a polymorphic spreading mode. I would say >> "distributing" or "sharing" fits better. For instance, source code >> doesn't spread but gets distributed or shared. Of course accusing >> RAiD >> of sharing just doesn't have the same "bite" as accusing him of >> spreading malware. > > Sure doesn't. Sharing is certainly not a trait of a sociopath; and > heaven > forbid mr anonymous posterboy is wrong, right? :) > >> Once the author relinquishes sole custody of the code, anyone with >> malice (and possession) can unleash it upon the world. I think the >> author must share in the responsibility....having written it. > > I agree. However, to give me the full credit for it, isn't exactly > fair; > people are being cheated out of the credit they deserve. LoL. Especially when sharing with entities that should be taking great care in handling samples.
From: James Egan on 19 May 2010 07:54 On Tue, 18 May 2010 20:59:56 -0400, "FromTheRafters" <erratic(a)nomail.afraid.org> wrote: >I think the >author must share in the responsibility....having written it. And so do I. As far as I'm concerned, making the stuff freely available to anyone who wanted it was just a method of spreading which exploited a loophole in the law to avoid recrimination. Jim
From: FromTheRafters on 19 May 2010 09:24
"James Egan" <jegan(a)jegan.com> wrote in message news:85i1rhF31fU1(a)mid.individual.net... > > On Tue, 18 May 2010 20:59:56 -0400, "FromTheRafters" > <erratic(a)nomail.afraid.org> wrote: > >>I think the >>author must share in the responsibility....having written it. > > And so do I. As far as I'm concerned, making the stuff freely > available to anyone who wanted it was just a method of spreading which > exploited a loophole in the law to avoid recrimination. I'm reminded of an episode of "The Simpsons" where Bart sets in motion things that result in an offense of some sort. He then exclaims "*I* didn't do it!". Art imitates life. Back to the "spreading" as opposed to "distributing" - consider a worm program. Often instead of just executing it and allowing it to spread, it gets distributed as widely as possible (spammed, or published, or posted and/or artificially made a popular search result) so as to have multiple starting points. Spreading is a function of the program, and distributing it is an outside function (possibly another program). |