Virus coders to jail? (What do you think?)

merendo · Post by **merendo** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 1:40 pm

Since Lovesan and Gibe are around, I have built my opinion, that programmers, that write Virus programmes should be punished by at least one year in jail. These people just make trouble and do not do useful things for the internet and world of computers.

What is your opinion? Post replies and post your opinion in the poll.

merendo

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 4:21 pm

Not those that write them but those that set them loose on the world. I've written a few things that could be considered virus but never turned them loose on anyone.

Destruction of property = jail time.

Dreglor · Post by **Dreglor** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 9:19 pm

i think if it only destorys hardware or software they should becasue some virus are jokes or annoying things and don't do any real damage

now do i ask would you arrest some one if they made a joke?

Doobrey · Post by **Doobrey** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 9:36 pm

Dreglor wrote:i think if it only destorys hardware or software they should becasue some virus are jokes or annoying things and don't do any real damage

They maybe harmless jokes that don`t cause and damage, but what about the effects on the networks they spread over?
There can still be financial costs for victims of these jokes. For example, it could bring down a company network for several hours just down to the increased network traffic it causes.
I`ve even heard of newbies formatting their HD and reinstalling Windows because they didn`t know any better, and thought the joke was a real damage causing virus.

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 9:37 pm

Yea- though even the annoying ones do cost people. Bandwidth for these lame ass worms for example... Even if they don't destroy anything per se it's still costing me money because I have to buy my bandwidth!

Anyway.. No just for writing them, yes for releasing them!

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 7:11 pm

On my work with NETSEND PRO, i've made a lot of code that could be used to shutdown anti-virus software and cause real damage to a system.

For all effects the code could be considered a virus, except it only works to blood hound a specific task and kill it.

If anyone changed a couple of lines it would be real bad.

So i voted in the "only if it causes damage" ...

merendo · Post by **merendo** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 6:55 pm

I hope you will never publish the source

ricardo · Post by **ricardo** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 7:31 pm

To be 'real', there a an undeground world where some guys feel proud to be hackers o crackers.
Those people feel good playing to be the 'bad guys' and many of their codes, posts, etc. are ilegal and i think that jail is the best place to put those 'bad guys' until they grow up and become mature people.

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 2:08 am

Script kiddies, el1te hax0rs, etc.. Eventually most of us errr uhm them, grow up and stop all that nonsense when they figure out they're not nearly as clever as they thought they were

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