Re: UKNM: Love bug bust

[Neil.McIntosh]

Ray Taylor asked:

>So, how many years should the culprits get? 45 million computers brought

down,

>$10 billion worth of damage, anyone care to bid? Or should it all be taken

as

>just a big joke?


But just think of all the money made... by anti-virus experts, email

filtering

facilities, premium-rate helpdesks, PRs putting out stuff saying the total

bill

was $10bn (the top end estimate - lowest so far is a bargain $2bn). It's

probably all worth a substantial part of the Phillipines' annual GDP.


Maybe the culprit should be punished with a top level, well-paid job near

the

top of a crime fighting agency, touring the world explaining to the

"experts"

just how easy it is to bring a portion of the electronic world, if not to

its

knees, certainly down with a serious cold.


:-)


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Neil McIntosh

Deputy editor, Online

The Guardian, London

t: 020 7239 9925



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