[Moderator: Almost need to label this 'humor'. :)] Forwarded From: shadowvrai@trust-me.com http://www.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/199903/199903050334.html Super Hacker Apprehended A police spokesman announced Friday that officers had apprehended a super hacker who turned out to be a fifteen year old high school boy named Kim. To date 152 people have filed complaints about the 15 super viruses Kim created and e-mailed, but police expect the final figure to be over 2,000. Kim told police that he mailed the viruses to demonstrate his talents and to find out if anyone could develop a 'vaccine' for them. The viruses were so complex that they were virtually impossible to kill. The spokesman said that Kim was known as a computer genius from the 7th grade, when he learned to handle the machine code language 'assembly 3'. one of just forty to fifty people in Korea with such a talent. Yang Keun-won, head of the National Police Office's computer crime team commented that a virus creator and hacker like Kim could become a "national treasure" in the information society of the future. He added that he will guide Kim along the legal path of computer work. (Park Joon-hyun, jhparkat_private) -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Internet Security Institute [www.isi-sec.com]
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