Okay, thanks a lot you fucking asswipes. Thanks for causing our internet service to go down today. Thanks for screwing around with a bunch of people just for kicks.
Today, all morning, I tried to get online. I was connected, but I couldn’t access a single website. I called tech support, and it seems that their servers were hit by the msblast thing. So the whole service was down-people couldn’t get connected, people getting knocked off, and people having the same problems I did.
Now, it’s not THAT big a deal, just a minor annoyance for someone, really. But really, when you knock out an ISP for an entire area…why do people create this shit? Why do people crack into computers and do malicious damage? What’s in it for them?
*[sub]I used the correct term, “cracker”, rather than “hacker.” PLEASE, do NOT turn this into a cracker vs. hacker debate, or I will ask the mods to close this.[/sub]
Reiterate what Lobsang said ‘Because they can’ and also probably to make some sort of ‘dig’ at Bill Gates, one of the hidden messages in the worm was Billy Gates why do you let this happen… Or something to that effect.
Yeah, what Delly said. I think many of them are young enough, immature enough, and plain ol’ silly enough to genuinely see themselves as vigilante good guys. We can only hope that the smarter and/or more decent ones realise that this sort of shit can even cost lives, and that they’ll have some sort of rudimentary remorse finding its way into their heads. Either that, or they just grow out of it.
But I’m not defending them. They are indeed fucking asswipes, and need a good kick up their teenage khybers.
Did you ever think maybe Gates and Microsoft intentionally set it in motion. Who else would know how to exploit the Windows “backdoors” so well? It’s the best case for Paladium and “Trusted Computing” that they could make.
I deal with crackers and virus writers all the time… who in their right mind spends all that fucking time writing a virus? It’s offical… you have no life…
Personally, I suspect that the most magnificent “virus programmers” in the world are probably hired by Symantec and McAfee. I rather think that it’s THEY who actually release the worms. Sends their stock through the roof I find.
Another good question would be what kind of ISP would let this happen? My service sure didn’t go out, and I’m assuming it’s because BellSouth actually knows how to keep its systems updated. Unfortunately, it’s about the only thing they know how to do right, but you take what you can get…
Heh. Poor BBF makes an intelligent point, but I just pick up on the above and giggle stupidly. This is what over a decade of Simpsons-watching’ll do to a bloke.
No, fuck the incompetent admins. First of all, this patch has been available for a MONTH. Second of all, what kind of fucktarded admin has a server (or any system), let alone something MISSION CRITICAL, outside a fucking firewall? This leaves aside, of course, the idiocy of using a Windows box for a server. Urge to kill rising…
