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The Bright Side of Blaster
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-08-14

The Blaster worm has infected hundreds of thousands of Windows machines, shut down the Maryland state DMV, put network administrators on overtime, crashed countless consumer's home computers, and on Saturday it will attempt a denial-of-service attack on Microsoft's Windows Update site. But that doesn't make it all bad.

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hackers HATE worms 2003-08-16
Anonymous
"they probably pushed this one out themselves (and made it intentionally crappy to not draw suspicious)"

Actually, it is the quality of code in the MSBlaster worm that would lead me to believe it WAS Microsoft. They probably had thier best programmers working on it day and night instead of gett...

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