Love Bug Hacker as Hero

[John Kawakami]

>"People are so strange.  Everybody is deranged.  Every time I try to 
speak, they don't get it for a week." (Lyrics from Philippine punk 
group Eraserheads, cited in the Wall Street Journal as one of Love 
Bug hacker Onel de Guzman's favorite groups.)
>
>I'm surprised de Guzman hasn't received any discussion on this list 
as some sort of populist hero.  He claims he developed the virus as a 
thesis project, of all things, and that it was intended to give the 
poor free access to the Web.  At the very least, he deserves credit, 
IMHO, for revealing the soft underbelly of the Web, which is now so 
central to global capitalism.
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>Carl

Correction: it's the strength of the INTERNET and the weak security 
in MICROSOFT OUTLOOK.

When Outlook loses, the Web wins.

Let's get this straight.

The Good Guys: the web, the internet, ISPs, Gnutella, Free Software 
Foundation, IRC.

The Bad Guys: AOL, closed net protocols (like proprietary Quality of 
Service features), proprietary clients (like Outlook, AOL IM, ICQ, 
Napster).

The net assists a diversified style of capitalism.   Proprietary 
system encourage vertically integrated capitalism akin to trusts.