Looking for a job in the recession? Now we know how to get one.

> Mikeyy didn't just waste the time of thousands of Twitter users

Imagine the losses to the world economy from those Twitter users' time being wasted! The Horror!

So a worm that advertises something is ok but one that doesn't is not. My how spam has evolved.

Now if this 17 year old was ew say in his 40's and had AS and was British, would he of got offered a job I wonder.

Either way, nice to see some sanity take place, no harm was intended and he stuck his neck out enough to get noticed by a sane person who offered him a job. Albiet semi-advertising `hack a system - get a job` approach, which sadly alot of people try and fail at, things like ew prison, laws etc. But hey an industry that gets to recruit the people who generaly get caught is hardly going to get the best of the best, but still get some good people.

But hey at 17 (25 yrs ago) I wrote a mainframe worm, harmless, advertised a joke, nobody knew and I got me own job.

"If we all gave up at the first point of contact with a company having security issues, I tend to think the net would be a smoldering pile of dead wood before long."

You mean it isn't already??

The lad understands enough about html, Java and the Internet to write a script that spammed his website across Twitter... Clever, I bet he felt smug after that.

Yet he is not smart enough to secure his own systems. Not so clever, and rather humbling I suspect.

I wouldn't employ him, I don't need a tea boy anyway.

That truly was a profound scalping in the seclists.org link. I almost feel bad for Mikey.

So once again- remind me not to store my passwords in a plaintext file on my not-so-secure server. Maybe then I can be a L33T hacker like this guy.

"I doubt he still thinks it was worth it," Boyd concludes.

Go directly to career, do not pass higher education, do collect £200 repeatedly.

Travis Rowland, 24, founder and chief exec of Web applications development firm exqSoft Solutions"

::adds another company to the "never do business with" list::

What IS it with these chowderheads, anyway? You do NOT reward bad behavior, as any nursery school teacher (or good parent) will tell you! I wouldn't hire the brat until he managed to keep a clean nose long enough to get a Masters degree.

"sympathetic to Mooney's situation because he once worked in military intelligence""

Oh. That explains lots. The twit thinks working for the .mil is the same as a loner gaming a social networking site. Was Travis born a moron, or does he have to work at it?

New word time ... pulling a rowland, meaning rewarding a brat for being a brat.

*If* Mikeyy Mooney did make a sincere effort to warn Twitter (quite a big "if" to my mind, as it hasn't been suggested before) and they ignored him then his response should never have been to unleash the worm.

*If* they had ignored him, a better thing would have been to have gone to a security journalist, demonstrated the flaw to the journo, and allowed the journo (without publishing details of how to reproduce it) to write about it. You can be sure that would get the attention of Twitter's powers-that-be.

But the fact is that there's no suggestion that Mikeyy has ever contacted Twitter to work out a responsible way of disclosing the flaw. Instead he endangered many innocent Twitter users and disrupted the business.

Demonstrates the problem with strong passwords – it's almost impossible to remember them. They have to be recorded somewhere, and that can be more of a vulnerability than using weak but easy to remember ones.

Whats the point in strong passwords if they're stored in one central place with no encryption?

Talk about missing the point.

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