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dracosilv wrote:
> ���hw��f wrote:
>> dracosilv wrote:
>>> ���hw��f wrote:
>>>> dracosilv wrote:
>>>>> ���hw��f wrote:
>>>>>> dracosilv wrote:
>>>>>>> Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:29:32 GMT, Bluuuue Rajah
>>>>>>>> <Bluuuuue@Rajah.> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Computer Experts Unite to Hunt Worm
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> March 18, 2009
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> nytimes.com/2009/03/19/technology/19worm.html
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> An extraordinary behind-the-scenes struggle is taking place
>>>>>>>>> between computer security groups around the world and the
>>>>>>>>> brazen author of a malicious software program called Conficker.
>>>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> These so called "computer experts" aren't all that bright if you
>>>>>>>> ask me.  The best way to combat a worm...is with another worm.
>>>>>>>> One that propagates, seeks out the bad worm, removes it and
>>>>>>>> then, once the threat has been eliminated a kind of "self
>>>>>>>> destruct" code can be broadcast to the good worm which will
>>>>>>>> delete itself.
>>>>>>> But isn't that illegal in its own right?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes but since the target is dimmys running windoze they would
>>>>>> never know.
>>>>> A valid point, but still, the fact is that its illegal.
>>>>>
>>>> Sure. And if you read the article just poasted to /. you'll see that
>>>> some of the detection tools are illegal in Germany and the UK...
>>> Why are they supposedly illegal?  Since they could be classified as
>>> *gasp* a hacker tool?
>>>
>> You'd have to grep the slashdot article, read the comments section,
>> and find the relevant poast where somwon links to some docs
>> describing the law. IIRC its basicly this:if you posess a SW tool
>> that can be used for hacking, you're assumed guilty in the UK.
>> Its fucking rediculous...but the gubmint in the UK is shite anyhow.
>>
>> ^_^
> 
> So i guess that everyone in the UK should be arrested since if you have a
> text editor and a big enough internet pipe you could probably do a
> pingflood.

I guess they need to test all internet users now in the UK with a 
polygraph and ask them, "can you hack a computer?"

Soon they'll be requireing *all* users to have webcams so the rozzers 
can see who's looking at the nasty internets.




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