Love Bug Hacker as Hero

[Reese]

At 05:24 PM 12/05/00 EDT, Carl Remick wrote:
>"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.  

Some sort of discussion, anyway,,,


>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.

Sorry.  Revealing once again, the soft underbelly of the Windows operating
system and the exploitability of Outlook/Outlook Express.  Got the
auto-open of attachments and auto-add of email addresses turned off, all
you Outlook/OE users?

Mac and Linux users were unaffected, as were Windows users who did not use
Outlook.  Some overlap between Outlook/OE and other questionably braindeads
who use mIRC.

Reese