{"id":553,"date":"2004-05-06T22:30:50","date_gmt":"2004-05-07T01:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=553"},"modified":"2004-05-06T22:30:50","modified_gmt":"2004-05-07T01:30:50","slug":"flamboozled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=553","title":{"rendered":"Flamboozled"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>‘ve never been impressed with nowadays virusses. They are all the same. Think of it: if a virus starts over and over again on your Windows computer where<\/em> do you start to look? Maybe the bad thing about technology is that it makes people forget the basics. It’s the same with trying to get a fire going with two sticks of wood. We forget.\n<\/p>\n

Anyways: this morning CNN was discussing the Sasser worm and the reporter mentioned the reasons for virus writers to write virusses. This one had me laughing:\n<\/p>\n

   First of all, believe it or not, sometimes people create worms or viruses to try and get a job.\n<\/p>\n

There was a case in Holland were a mayor offered a job to a virus writer (who apparently used a ‘virus kit’ to generate his virus). This had many programmers laughing. Carol Costello (the CNN anchor) apparently too:\n<\/p>\n

   It’s just the getting a job thing just has me flamboozled (ph).\n<\/p>\n

Cute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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