Another great post from Slashdot.org:

"Microsoft will announce a bounty of $250,000 on Wednesday for information on who wrote two recent Windows viruses. The bounty is offered for information that leads to the arrest of the people who released the MSBlast worm and the SoBig virus. Microsoft will officially announce the reward in a joint press conference with the FBI and U.S. Secret Service Wednesday morning. This is the first time a company has offered money for information about the identity of the cybercriminals. Could this be the start of a new trend in going after the writers of viruses & worms?"

Script-Kiddie: "Dude! You turned me in to... to... Microsoft!?! That's cold!"

Former Friend of Script-Kiddie: "Sorry, man, tuition at MIT is a real *****, yo."

S.K.: "MIT? What choo talking 'bout, MIT? You go to Westchester Community College!"

F.F.o.S.K.: "That was before I got this here letter of recommendation from my new sponsor, William H. Gates III. Hey, whaddya think of these new Birkenstocks? Too gay? I kinda think they set off my eyes pretty well, yo..."

S.K.: "Dooooooood....!" (As two big guys in MS-branded butterfly suits drag him into back of van)

F.F.o.S.K.: "Hey, look me up when you get out, man. By then I should be setting myself up in my own company and will be able to use a guy with your leet skills."

More here.

There's more on this story here : http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/33792.html

hey poet, remember that pic i posted that was "inapproate" for the site.. you said TS is a 'family' site, so any person of any age can come here. So why are there such words as b****? jw

aside from all that jargon^^ its an intresting post

it was me ....... think ms will give me the money if i turn myself in?

Hehehe I think I'd sell out my script kiddie pal for a place at MIT

ROFL! Lol!!!! That made my day.

Yeah, that's the best bit!

Bounty.. hmm.. Phant has been watching too much Star Wars .

If I knew who it was the first thing I would do is torture the sorry little loser, THEN turn him in for the cash. That way I get the enjoyment of hearing him beg for mercy and his life first.

"There will be a substantial reward for the one who finds 'The Virus Writer.' You are free to use whatever methods necessary, but I want them alive. No litigations."

"As you wish..."

Lol, then we all hear you, begging to get out of jail, and that you wanna live without having to drop the soap....



Lol, J/K. But would you really want to torture that guy, and have him tell all about what you did for him? Did you even get the virus? Maybe if you did, I would understand.

ROFL!

The constant banging on my firewall by infected machines is enough to justify the harshest punishment you imagine. Though I would settle for his head on a stick to serve as a warning.

Be glad I was not actually infected, else I might have been unreasonable about it.

"If you write any more of those damn viruses, I'll put a bounty on your head so large every spotty-faced-social-misfit-C++-fanatic on the internet will be after you!"

From here.