Re:a resounding thank you from the virus writers (Score 1)

I made a pact with myself. I will accept responsibility for my decisions. So deciding to get a "toybox" and learn how it all works, well that is all that it is to me. But there are businesses out there, folks that make a living by I.T., societies that become increasingly dependant on this marvelous method of communicating and doing business. But creating Virii or any other form of mal-code born of a dysfunctional sense of power or accomplishment and unleashing it on the masses, what does it accomplish? More jobs for the security industry? A new cyber-army to wage wars against other nations? Bragging rights? 911 services that may not work when needed? Oops mom, the ambulance didn't get the call because the network was down. It's all rather naive, my comments, because I just don't hate like that, because I just cannot see the point in being so destructive. It is all about choice, which side of the fence one wants to be on. I like MS, Apple, Unix, all of it. I.T. is a wonderful way to give the mind something to do, purpose, a way to while the time away until I pass on, to the space between the 0's and 1's. So, maybe, just maybe, MS is onto something... laying the cornerstone for a foundation that would harden an OS to the point of making it hardly worthwhile hacking. They have absolute rights in attempting to secure their products against abuse, if not an obligation. Maybe then some folks would have to face daylight and try their hand at some old fashioned social engineering. But that would mean facing real people, humans, dealing with society again.