Comment Re:USE THE FEEDBACK FORM, LUKE!! (Score 1) 1194
My complaint:
Evans places the blame for MyDoom on the shoulders of "those who want to preserve the open-source Linux operating system". The claim is ridiculous with no evidence to back it up.
It requires no great technical skill to produce a worm such as MyDoom, only the desire to break the law and cause harm.
He points to the Denial of Service attack as the primary purpose but fails to mention that the worm installs a back door into every infected system, giving the perpetrator(s) remote access to the target machine. That's far more dangerous than a short-term DoS attack that is easily defended.
Evans needs to take a lesson from Occam's Razor and consider the more probable explanation. MyDoom was written by an individual or very small group with their own agenda, which could be any of a hundred different things one can do with another's personal information.
Isn't it also just as possible that someone who loves SCO could have perpetrated this crime to foster a negative opinion about the open source movement?
Evans fell for the Trojan horse and is missing the most important point of all: sociopathic behavior does not fit with a community whose primary purpose is the free exchange of information to the benefit of all.
Evans places the blame for MyDoom on the shoulders of "those who want to preserve the open-source Linux operating system". The claim is ridiculous with no evidence to back it up.
It requires no great technical skill to produce a worm such as MyDoom, only the desire to break the law and cause harm.
He points to the Denial of Service attack as the primary purpose but fails to mention that the worm installs a back door into every infected system, giving the perpetrator(s) remote access to the target machine. That's far more dangerous than a short-term DoS attack that is easily defended.
Evans needs to take a lesson from Occam's Razor and consider the more probable explanation. MyDoom was written by an individual or very small group with their own agenda, which could be any of a hundred different things one can do with another's personal information.
Isn't it also just as possible that someone who loves SCO could have perpetrated this crime to foster a negative opinion about the open source movement?
Evans fell for the Trojan horse and is missing the most important point of all: sociopathic behavior does not fit with a community whose primary purpose is the free exchange of information to the benefit of all.
