Re: [LUG] Lovesan

[Gemma Peter <gemma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon Waters wrote:

> Gemma Peter wrote:
>  
>
> > Found an interesting article on the New Scientist website about a
> > friendly worm.
> > http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994070
> >    
> Friendly is the wrong phrase....
>
> Misguided fits better. This worm was causing all sorts of mischief,
> probably due to it overloading routers.
>
> It is almost impossible to predict the effects of releasing this kind of
> software into the wild, and therefore very irresponsible, hopefully the
> police services will track down and prosecute the authors of both worms.
>
> I take a similar view to farming genetically modified organisms, for
> similar reasons.
I didn't mean to use friendly (it sounded sarcastic in my head). I guess 
it was just refreshing to see a worm doing something almost useful, 
rather than the usual "kill, crush, destroy" or the plain annoying type.


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