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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 2003-08-18
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Yes, it would have been very illegal. those system's do not belong to microsoft, they just authored the software.

You know, I haven't read the fine print in the license, but I bet someone would have pointed this out by now if it was ok for microsoft to compromise windows machines :)...

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