“Malware in your system? Good”

TomLiotta May 31, 2013   5:43 AM GMT

It'll be interesting if an unwitting (or troublemaking?) employee of a company like, say, Microsoft or IBM downloads and uses such a piece of 'malware' inside a corporate network and the network is attacked. If that happens a time or two, especially through an unlicensed piece of a competitor's product, there might be some interesting consequences. -- Tom

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Eric Hansen May 31, 2013   5:17 PM GMT

My thing though is that I don't feel infecting people with malware is the best way to handle pirating software.  The problem is the conglomerate pricing for whats out there.Take music for an example.  Artists don't make much off of record sales, more so digital sales.  The record company themselves bring in most of that, artists live off of concert sales instead.  But then they have to contend with the venue's pricing, paying all these other fees involved in renting out the place, etc..., that's why a lot of artists don't make it their full-time gig.  Especially now with anyone who can play a note on a guitar thinking they can make it big.  Its great to dream, but if you dream too big your expectations will only falter you.

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TomLiotta Jun 1, 2013   0:04 AM GMT

Also, by distributing software with payloads that cause damage, it's a way to distribute even more examples of how to do it. Assuming some well crafted commercial procedures, we might see some new generations of reverse-engineered attacks disguised as legitimate programs. -- Tom

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