# Fucking crackers and virus writers! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 13, 2003, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-crackers-and-virus-writers/194795 "2003-08-13T01:36:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-crackers-and-virus-writers/194795/1 "2003-08-13T01:36:20Z")
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] ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-crackers-and-virus-writers/194795/2 "2003-08-13T01:44:46Z")
Because they can. I guess. I think it makes them feel powerful to know how much damage their ‘talent’ can do. ---
**Author:** ![Bandanaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ab097/32.png) [@Bandanaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bandanaman)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-crackers-and-virus-writers/194795/3 "2003-08-13T01:49:24Z")
How annoying. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-crackers-and-virus-writers/194795/4 "2003-08-13T02:40:05Z")
Hehehe. I saw “Fucking crackers” and thought, “Since when did **Guinastasia** become an old black man?” ---
**Author:** ![Delly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Delly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delly)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-crackers-and-virus-writers/194795/5 "2003-08-13T02:47:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-crackers-and-virus-writers/194795/6 "2003-08-13T02:54:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*\*[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] \*\* And here I came into the thread thinking you were lumping me, a white guy, with biographers of biological terrorists. Now I know better… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-crackers-and-virus-writers/194795/7 "2003-08-13T02:56:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Read\_Neck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Read\_Neck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Read_Neck)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-crackers-and-virus-writers/194795/8 "2003-08-13T03:09:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Thaidog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/50afbb/32.png) [@Thaidog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thaidog)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-crackers-and-virus-writers/194795/9 "2003-08-13T03:16:29Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-crackers-and-virus-writers/194795/10 "2003-08-13T03:22:13Z")
Well, that’s one of the more ref—Ow! HEY! STOP THAT! ---
**Author:** ![whatami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/85f322/32.png) [@whatami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatami)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-crackers-and-virus-writers/194795/11 "2003-08-13T04:18:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Read\_Neck \* > \*\*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’m sure that Micro$oft loves to spend all the extra money on programming a fix, then getting the word out there with all the negative plublicity. ---
**Author:** ![Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boo_Boo_Foo)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-crackers-and-virus-writers/194795/12 "2003-08-13T04:44:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-crackers-and-virus-writers/194795/13 "2003-08-13T04:54:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > **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?** 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… ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-crackers-and-virus-writers/194795/14 "2003-08-13T05:11:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Boo Boo Foo \* > **…release the worms…** 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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-crackers-and-virus-writers/194795/15 "2003-08-13T05:18:04Z")
It’s Stargate. I don’t know what exactly happened, just that they were hit with it. ---
**Author:** ![Read\_Neck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Read\_Neck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Read_Neck)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-crackers-and-virus-writers/194795/16 "2003-08-13T05:41:11Z")
> [@](#): > > “The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.” - Douglas Adams Truer words were never spoken. ---
**Author:** ![Alereon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alereon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alereon)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-crackers-and-virus-writers/194795/17 "2003-08-13T10:33:40Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-crackers-and-virus-writers/194795/18 "2003-08-13T14:53:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*It’s Stargate. I don’t know what exactly happened, just that they were hit with it. \*\* That’s horrible! Dr. Jackson’s trapped over there now? Well, he’s smart. He’ll find a patch and get Colonel O’Neil and the troops back home. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-crackers-and-virus-writers/194795/19 "2003-08-13T15:08:02Z")
Release the worms! Release the viruses! Release the worms with viruses in their mouths so when they sneeze, viruses come out! ---
**Author:** ![Bubba\_Ray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bubba\_Ray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubba_Ray)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-crackers-and-virus-writers/194795/20 "2003-08-13T15:30:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Read\_Neck \* > \*\*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. \*\* Dont forget the molemen that finance the nefarious schemes with all the underpants they stole in phase 1 of their plan. Whoops time for my meds. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-crackers-and-virus-writers/194795.md?page=2)