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Prolific Virus Writers

Aug 03, 2004 12:20 PM
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It's an old adage of software development that the top-flight coders are ten times as productive as their merely-good colleagues.

Apparently they can be ten times as destructive, too: Sophos reports that Sven Jaschan, self-confessed author of the Netsky and Sasser computer viruses, is responsible for 70 percent of virus infections in 2004.


Comments: Prolific Virus Writers

When does the class action lawsuit for everyone on the Internet against him start?

And is it possible to keep him in some jail or another for the rest of his life?

Posted by: Kearns on August 3, 2004 12:49 PM | permalink

Well, if we put Steven Landsburg in the jury (see: http://slate.msn.com/id/2101297), maybe we can get the chair for the guy. It'll be fun!

Posted by: Sean on August 3, 2004 1:07 PM | permalink

No disagreement from me. Virus writers/creators are criminals, plain and simple. And they should be jailed as such.

Unless, of course, the virus' daddy is Joe Grossberg. Then I say we just punish him by taking away the pork rinds....

Posted by: Nicardo Autobahn on August 3, 2004 2:19 PM | permalink

No more comments! Either someone has violated Godwin's Law, I'm tired of the discussion or, most likely, the ten-week window has closed. You can, however, contact me through email.