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When you are just 20, you don't think a lot about ethics

What planet is this guy from? I understood it was wrong to lie, cheat and steal when I was 5. If someone had explained to me what malware in 2010 looked like and how people made money from it, I would have understood that was wrong.

I'd be a lot more understanding of an explanation like "I couldn't find legitimate work", but the idea that 20 is too young to understand or care about ethics is absurd.

Glad to be running a Linux desktop in relation to this ... though it sucks in a number of other ways.

" estimates that a hacker who gets 1 to 2 percent of users of infected machines to purchase the software can pull in over $5 million a year in commissions."

Why am I not using my computer security knowledge to do this? haha

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