[ale] OT - Executing virus authors...

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 09:29, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> Kickin'. The writer gives an economic justification for executing virus
> writers and distributors. Of course, he neglects to mention that  most
> estimates of computer virus//worm damage are wildly exaggerated. The
> factors driving the number up tend to outweigh anything which would keep
> it to a sane value. A quick google search gives me an amusing essay
> (http://loosewire.typepad.com/blog/2004/02/more_on_damage_.html) on the
> provenance of that $50 * 10^9 per year figure used in the article. If I
> was going to start killing people over it I'd want a number which was
> likely to be true.
> 
> Frankly, the economic argument would make more sense applied to spammers
> -- and the defenses I can deploy against them are more limited (yes, I
> use spamassassin and it works for me). Heck, you'd probly only have to
> kill a couple of them for the deterrent effect to kick in. I'd vote for
> shooting Scott Richter on national TV, and my local email admins would
> probably support me there.

Are you kidding?!?! Most email admins could be used as a fund raiser!
How much would they _pay_ for a lottery ticket that gets them a chance
to pull the trigger? And there's the video and DVD sales of the event.
It could dwarf "Running Man" !

Or better, put him in a clear box and let the lottery winner release the
flesh eating beetles from the "The Mummy" movies. 

> 
> -- CHS
> 
> On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 09:05, Keith Morris - IQ wrote:
> > found this to be an entertaining article and thought you might get a 
> > kick out of it.
> > 
> > http://slate.msn.com/id/2101297/fr/rss/
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