Delivery problems: something for you

[dep]

quoth Bill Campbell:

| Perhaps people might get the idea if one of these worms reformatted
| every Windows hard drive on the 'Net.

the *only* thing about the internet that surprises me is that no one has 
done this yet. the mechanism is well enough known that it would be 
trivial not only to create such a package but to make it different 
enough from the signatures of other infections that it would have taken 
'em all out before the scanners caught up. the cost would run into the 
hundreds of billions of dollars. the class-action lawsuits would be 
colorful, and they would keep both msft and the tort vultures busy for 
quite awhile. of course, it would also trash lots of retirement 
programs that are too heavily invested in msft.

a very serious disclaimer: the above is hypothetical and is not intended 
to suggest that anything mentioned (well, with the exception of wasting 
the time of tort lawyers) would be good or admirable and, to the 
contrary, i think that anyone creating such a program should spend the 
rest of his or her days in jail.
-- 
dep

Hippocratic oath: An ethical construct whose initial tenet, "first, do 
no harm," prohibits doctors from treating lawyers.