RE: [Full-Disclosure] DCOM/RPC story (Analogy)

["Schmehl, Paul L" <pauls@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kristian Hermansen [mailto:khermansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 10:47 AM
> To: Full Disclosure
> Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] DCOM/RPC story (Analogy)
> 
> 
> Yeah, you are correct about him still being responsible in 
> legal terms...but I still think that he is getting more than 
> he deserves.  And another great point you made was this:
> 
> > he is going to pay for the the MS Blaster AND sobig virus attacks 
> > because I'm sure most people don't even know or remember the 
> > difference between the two of them.
> >
> > jb
> 
> This is most likely true and is very sad.  Yes, the kid 
> committed a crime, but the punishment far exceeds the crime.

The kid hasn't even been formally charged yet, much less gone to trial
or been convicted, so your statement is meaningless at best.
  
> Enron executives lie/cheat/steal, governments 
> execute/murder/overthrow, Martha Stewart intentionally 
> swindles stock holders out of mucho ca$h and none of these 
> people have received the punishment that they all deserve. 

Neither the Enron execs nor Martha Stewart have been to trial yet, so
how can you even say this?
 
> The sad truth is that money talks. Wealth is power in this 
> world and if you don't have it you're just another cow in the 
> field...being herded along by thoses who have wealth and 
> power - it's fu3king sad...
> 
This is quite a leap from "18 year-old arrested for creating blaster
variant".  Don't you think you ought to wait for the results before
bemoaning them?

Paul Schmehl (pauls@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/

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