Every post that questions his judgment in the slightest is to be
construed as a deadly attempt at this micro sized ego, and calls for
instant retaliation.

From: "Dustin Cook" 
Newsgroups:
alt.comp.virus,alt.comp.os.windows-xp,alt.os.windows-xp,alt.windows-xp,comp.lan
g.c++
Subject: Re: Caution SONY Music CDs have trojan Malware
Date: 4 Nov 2005 07:49:39 -0800
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Towelie wrote:

> Dustin - so don't buy Sony. Your choice. Why use the issue to try to
> prove your perceived intellectual superiority over others? Inferiority
> complex? Can't handle being contradicted?

What in the world are you talking about? I'm not trying to prove any
superiority, I'm simply wanting some individuals who should know
better, like the register, from reporting inaccurate information, thats
all.

> Virus writers: idiots who think they're clever cos they can write 3
> lines of javascript.
> Virus writers who loudly claim "credit" for their supposed creations:
> even bigger idiots.

javascript? Kiddo, Mine were exe/com infectors. I don't need to claim
credit, I'm already published by name in virusbulletin, damn near 6
years ago.

> People who claim to be virus writers when they obviously are not, then
> use this imaginary "skill" to present themselves as smarter than
> everybody else: the biggest idiots of all.

When they are obviously not? Sigh. I don't know how to make this any
simpler for you, I am Raid; I am a former well known virus writer. Why
in the hell would anybody claim to be this individual of all people, if
they were not? If you were a coder, you could see for yourself.
BugHunter is a legitimate application, but all programmers like bomb
makers have a certain signature. You'd find the coding style used on
BugHunter matches the coding style used on viruses and other malware
(war dialers, etc) written by Raid (me).

> Did I just hear a virus writer calling somebody "lamer"? Now that's
> very funny indeed. Why do people stick with writing viruses? Because
> its so ridiculously easy. Doesn't even require any coding skills or
> understanding of programming techniques whatsoever. So obviously anyone
> who trumpets his own virus-coding skills doesn't have any.

Indeed. If your writing scripts, like javascript. :) I don't.
Incidently, you don't read so well; I'm retired. Have been for a very
long time now. Aside from maintaining contact with some old friends on
both sides, I have nothing to do directly with the Vx scene. My
interests are in malware removal, not it's creation.

> BTW anyone who thinks the Sony DRM thing is an issue needs to google
> "NSA key".

I do not feel the sony thing is that big of an issue. It's sneaky, but
something similiar was already released on the new foo fighters. It
just didn't make such an effort to hide itself.

Regards,
Dustin Cook

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