What's the point of compromising some compromised PCs? Is it easier than compromising uncompromised PCs?

Coat? Goddit.

You just have to wonder at what proportion of those browsers are what, dontcha. Any figures for that, anyone?

Another Register article today reported the less than brilliant performance of students in science in the UK.

"More than 2 in 3" = 2/3rds = 66.6666 repeating %. 65% is, therefore, less than 2 in 3 !

Back to school....

Two things don't add up - the teenage arrests for computer hacking in western countries and then pointing the fingers an eastern governments for "Cyberwarfare".

Maybe they just don't care if their teenage kids hack western PCs, afterall, it's good IT training, and when they get older they'll have a clue about how to secure a company network against hackers, unlike the majority of clueless western sysadmins.

I blame Holywood, making all those films glorifying hacking, then exporting them to countries where the illegality of it is not quite so apparent.

considering that firefox is only the tiniest bit more secure than IE, does it really matter?

Here's a story on this from a nice source, this guy is a well respected tech journo down here in New Zealand and also has a son with Asperger's Syndrome:

http://humans.org.nz/2007/12/03/getting-lost-on-a-straightforward-journey/

Not to explain away the damage caused, perhaps an insight into what may be a teenager who struggles socially and has gotten out of their depth.

Ta,

Mikey