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Busting the Worm Writers
Tim Mullen, 2003-11-24

Microsoft deserves praise for offering a cash reward to catch people who criminally exploit their bugs.

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Busting the Worm Writers 2003-11-26
Rob McQuillen
I think the reason this move is condemned is because it's a bad approach, and a poor solution, to the problem.

Paying people to catch worm authors isn't going to make the problem go away. Worms are not created because of bad software, but they are made possible by bad software.

If you buy a ho...

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