winnie schrijft dat de ''biografie'' van de maker van het melissa virus, David Smith, te vinden is op deze pagina.
At 30, single and employed on an irregular basis as a computer programmer, Smith met most definitions of a nobody. Admittedly, he dressed smartly and kept in shape, but his outward personability was more than negated by what one of his friends called 'the personality of bread mould'. His love life, as far as anyone knew, had been fairly unremarkable. There was only one girl, somewhere in the past - a willowy blonde whom he seemed to have genuinely fallen for. Her name was Melissa.
Smith settled down in front of a personal computer. It was one of several that he owned. Later, when things became hot, he would have to smash it up with a garden spade, and throw the pieces into a rubbish skip. But this afternoon, as the big East Coast cities of New York, Boston and Washington began to empty, his fingers moved smoothly over the keyboard.
He entered cyber-space using a stolen access authorisation that had been issued by America Online, the giant internet provider, to a customer in Florida called Scott Steinmetz. This allowed Smith to use Steinmetz's e-mail address, skyrocket@aol.com, which he proceeded to do, to devastating effect.
Misschien een goed idee om dit niet na te gaan doen, je bent best wel lang bezig om 900 miljoen dollar te betalen (zijn straf die hij misschien krijg naast 45 jaar achter tralies)...
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