Remember a while ago when the “Samy is my hero” worm broke out on Myspace and automatically added you as a friend? Right, me neither. My conclusion: Samy’s a dick and deserves whatever he gets, all hail News Corp!
Samy Kamkar is actually being forced to pay Myspace restitution for his worm. I cannot see Myspace really needing any money, unless Tom is fishing for that new underwater mini-bar he saw in Sky Mall. God, people with money piss me off.
Fines aside, Samy my hero has to endure 90 days of community of service, but here’s the real kicker. He is now officially banned from the internet for an undisclosed amount of time. Bummer dude.
[via SCMag]
For those without a clue here is the story of went down in October 2005 via Wikipedia:
Samy was a cross-site scripting computer worm targeting the social-networking site MySpace.
The worm carried a payload that would display the string “but most of all, Samy is my hero” on a victim’s profile. Within just 20 hours of its October 4, 2005 release, over one million users had run the payload, making Samy one of the fastest spreading worms of all time.Execution of the payload resulted in a “friend request” automatically being made to the author of the worm and in messages containing the payload being left on the profiles of the friends of the victim. |
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