[113664] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Michael Mooney releases another worm: Law Enforcement /
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew.wallace)
Fri Apr 17 21:38:20 2009
In-Reply-To: <49E92CAE.1070408@brightok.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:38:12 +0100
From: "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org, n3td3v <n3td3v@googlegroups.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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@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
>
>
