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  1. May 17th, 2000, 11:06 PM #1
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    The lastest news is that there are now 53 suspects involved in the virus they are members of the underground group of programmers called GRAMMERSoft which only income is to sell programming projects to students. Now the primary suspect a guy called Onel De Guzman proposed a thesis project virus that steals passwords to users then sends back to his email account which the university not only rejected his proposal but also kicked him out of school. Now the philippines does not have any laws that can put to jail any hacker so there is no crime done! Thats all.

    The I-Love-You Virus just proves that the philippines is one of the home for the best programmers in the world.
    We are just so poor that we cant use our talents for profit.

    Third world countries rules!!!

  2. May 18th, 2000, 12:07 AM #2
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    No offense... but if he was that good he wouldn't have been caught. Viruses are extremely simple to write. Real talent is demonstrated in usefull code that servs a purpose. In my opinion people who right virus's are like people who shoot up elementary schools. They get off on mass desctruction and injuring others just cause they got picked on in high school.
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  3. May 18th, 2000, 12:22 AM #3
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    I agree with scuzymoto. Any programmer with half a brain can write a recursive function that manipulates files on a system. It takes one with no brain to write a malicious virus and leave a digital paper trail all the way back to himself.
  4. May 18th, 2000, 12:26 AM #4
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    I'm just going to mention Microsoft here for having the most talented programmers
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    writing software in C++ is like driving rivets into steel beam with a toothpick.
    writing haskell makes your life easier:
    reverse (p (6*9)) where p x|x==0=""|True=chr (48+z): p y where (y,z)=divMod x 13
    To throw away OOP for low level languages is myopia, to keep OOP is hyperopia. To throw away OOP for a high level language is insight.
  6. May 18th, 2000, 01:00 AM #5
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    Ok, your right

    The programmer is not good and maybe the program itself is not that sophisticated... but it did a wakeup call to the entire world how vulnerable the world network systems are today.
  7. May 18th, 2000, 01:08 AM #6
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    If Microsoft have the most talented programmers in the world they've got to have the most economized management in the world!

    Microsoft make S*C*ING programs. I'm not saying I could do it better, but they could make them MUCH BETTER if they want to! Microsoft don't have any real competition to other companies, so they don't take their task properly!

    [Edited by Jakys on 05-18-2000 at 02:12 PM]
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