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...hide the outbreak. CP's participation in any cover-up "is just not true,'' says Dhanin. The company's chicken farms are a bulwark against the spread of diseases, he contends, because its birds are kept in giant warehouses, sequestered from birds believed to be carriers of the virus. His views are supported by a Bangkok-based senior officer of the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, who says enclosed factory farms like CP's are the safest...
Moreover, Dhanin says CP began warning Thai farmers about the possibility of avian flu in November. That's when company officials showed him a newspaper photo of birds dying in central Thailand. Dhanin says he had no idea it was the deadly H5N1 virus, but he knew he had to act. Orders went out to seal up all of CP's chicken plants by further restricting access to plant premises--even delivery trucks were kept out. On Jan. 23, government officials announced that two young boys had tested positive for avian flu. The next day, CP's stock plummeted...
Apparently angered at Bagle’s success, another group of hobby virus-writers created Netsky in the same mold. Netsky.D, its most successful variant, took the additional step of uninstalling any versions of Bagle it found on systems it infected. The war had begun, and l33t h4x0Rs on both sides struck back in the only way they could: “Hey, NetSky, fuck off you bitch, don’t ruine our bussiness, wanna start a war?” read the internal code of a new Bagle variant...
With each retort, virus-coders on all sides release new variants with new social engineering tactics. There are now 21 official variants of Bagle and 17 of Netsky. And in this hackers’ spitting contest there are only millions and millions of losers—Internet users. Netsky, Bagle and Mydoom together have caused over 100 billion dollars of estimated damage to personal and commercial computer systems, according to Internet security firm mi2g. All this havoc, so few grammatical skills...
While the puerile creators of Bagle, Netsky and others may eventually tire of their war, there will doubtless be many more to take their place. The demonstrated ease with which these socially-engineered viruses have spread is an tantalizingly simple way to achieve hacker immortality for anyone familiar with Visual C++ at the …for Dummies level and above. And with antivirus companies releasing new updates daily to combat new variants, even day-old protection files can damn computers to virus hell...