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Old 11-05-2003, 01:27 PM
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Microsoft is now offering bounties.

Microsoft will announce on Wednesday that it will offer two $250,000 bounties for information that leads to the arrest of the people who released the MSBlast worm and the SoBig virus, CNET News.com has learned.
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http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-5102...ag=cnetfd.buzz
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Old 11-05-2003, 01:50 PM
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Re: Microsoft is now offering bounties.

that is freaking hilarious. let's get them!!!
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Old 11-05-2003, 02:20 PM
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Re: Microsoft is now offering bounties.

Heh. Spose thats a good cause to do. Knock down those buggers. Almost could of stopped the internet super highway! Shame that money has no use to me though!
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Old 11-05-2003, 03:00 PM
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Re: Microsoft is now offering bounties.

Didn't the guy responsible for MSBlast get caught?

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Old 11-05-2003, 03:24 PM
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Re: Microsoft is now offering bounties.

Heh, if I could I would've done that anyway but I guess that just makes people more active.
Good that MS does something good for once.
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Old 11-05-2003, 03:40 PM
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Re: Microsoft is now offering bounties.

Microsoft doesn't need that worm to crash...they suck anyway...heh....:cool:
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Old 11-05-2003, 03:54 PM
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Re: Microsoft is now offering bounties.

.................*grins*

Someone's gonna be making some phone calls to Godzilla Brock Lesner and John Cena tonight..........^_^
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Old 11-05-2003, 04:08 PM
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Re: Microsoft is now offering bounties.

People would do anything for a little reward money.
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Old 11-05-2003, 05:20 PM
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Re: Microsoft is now offering bounties.

are you saying that catching these people isnt a good cause, CIV?
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Old 11-05-2003, 05:22 PM
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Re: Microsoft is now offering bounties.

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Didn't the guy responsible for MSBlast get caught?
A kid that made a variant of it that allowed him access the computers that his variant were on got caught, not the creater or the makers of the other 6 or so variants.

I'm meh on the whole issue of the bounties and what not, Microsoft has no place getting vigilantes and bounty hunters going, leave it to the authorities.
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Old 11-05-2003, 05:22 PM
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Re: Microsoft is now offering bounties.

for 250,000 dollars, i know a lot of things...
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Old 11-05-2003, 05:24 PM
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Re: Microsoft is now offering bounties.

I read somewhere else that if you actually catch them you get $500,000. *gets out tracking devices and those dart guns that make you fall asleep if your hit*
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Old 11-05-2003, 05:33 PM
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Re: Microsoft is now offering bounties.

what if you catch them AND hogtie them? then do you get even more than that? i really would like to hogtie someone... it sounds fun.
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Old 11-05-2003, 07:10 PM
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Re: Microsoft is now offering bounties.

I have sent out probes all over the galaxy. We WILL find him. Or I'll have to choke another officer to death. Which I do enjoy.
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Old 11-05-2003, 07:34 PM
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Re: Microsoft is now offering bounties.

... hrm. instead of blowing 250,000$ on a bounty that thousands of people will claim and that it will cost twice as much to sort out, why don't they just take the money and fix all the problems that will lead to more viruses in the first place...

unless they're just trying to show how much they care about their consumers... o_O...

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Old 11-06-2003, 03:24 AM
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Re: Microsoft is now offering bounties.

It's times like this when I wish I was an american citizen...
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Old 11-07-2003, 08:47 AM
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Re: Microsoft is now offering bounties.

It's only $250 grand.It's times like this that i wish i as a hacker.
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Old 11-07-2003, 08:50 AM
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Re: Microsoft is now offering bounties.

I'm trying to convince my parents to let me out of school so i can be a bounty hunter now. So far I have no luck.
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