http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3172967.stm
While I happen to think that the punishment for writing a computer virus and releasing it on the InterNet ought to be, at a minimum for the first offence, loss of the dominant hand without benefit of anesthetic, I had not thought of the reasoning behind this article. We should look for more virus activity, it says, because the virus writers are forging a profitable relationship with spammers and hackers.
Which, of course, is another reason why we should oppose spam [the minimum first offense punishment there cannot be revealed in a blog intended for professional viewing, but the fact that it involves fire ants, honey, aardvarks, and old telephone crank generators, inter alia, should give some inkling of its awesome power].
Posted by jho at August 27, 2003 03:32 PM