full-disclosure - Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

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From: rob at vees.net (Rob Carlson)
Subject: Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

On Friday, Aug 29, 2003, at 11:23 America/New_York, Charles Ballowe 
wrote:

> Interesting -- the net cost of the worm is actually a net $0.00. For 
> every
> penny that a company chalks up as a cost to the worm, some other 
> company
> must be chalking up the cost as a profit from the worm.

Corporate inefficiency is a cost.  If a knowledge worker is sitting at 
a useless computer for 4 hours, that's a cost that doesn't easily 
translate into someone else's gain.

--
Rob Carlson  rob@...s.net  http://vees.net/