During my daily RSS OCD reading I had to deal with this article: it has been written by a “senior anti-virus researcher at Kaspersky Lab’s“. Talk about personal interest.
I wont comment on the practical implications of useless signature based AV’s and how cyber criminals will never need amateur-ish projects to carry on their malicious tactics.
But what is always interesting is watching the very same people who use billion dollar scare tactics to sell you a perfectly useless piece of software (which will give you a false sense of security, hence will make you more insecure), talking about ethics.
Hackers hacking hackers are always pretty fun.
And I am not talking about ZF05 (which was cool reading, even if not as cool as ~El8 was), I am talking about this.
43 years old “UFO eccentric” hacker Gary McKinnon just loses appeal against his extradition to the States for computer crimes he committed 7 years ago.
If you’ve lived under a rock during the last few years what this dude did was basically break into .gov computers looking for UFO related material.
Probably the last case of recreational hacking I’ve heard about.
So his case is obviously going to be a classical “Strike one to educate one hundred” kind of message to every hacker attacking american computer systems: we can reach you everywhere you live and have you extradited to our country where we will sentence you to life in prison.
Unless you are a multi millionaire cyber criminal living in Russia or a chinese spy, of course.