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Is it really fair to call someone a "skript kiddie" if they wrote the malware themselves that became "the most common malware" ?
by technion 5y ago
Is it really fair to call someone a "skript kiddie" if they wrote the malware themselves that became "the most common malware" ?
- deviation 5y agoYou beat me to this. This malware is better than some of the work my colleagues can do, and they're being paid a lot of money. Even though it has bad intentions, it's still good software. Credit where credit is due, I guess.
- TravHatesMe 5y agoI feel like a script kiddie is someone that ripped off good code from others, maybe made a few adjustments at most, and claimed it as their own in an attempt to look cool
- openknot 5y agoA misquote or an edit in the original comment occurred, as it now appears as: "Finding the author of most common malware isn't hard." This assertion is different (i.e. Finding the author of [the majority of] malware isn't hard..., versus Finding the author of [the most popularly-used] malware isn't hard...).
- FastEatSlow 5y agoI don't call the authors of most original malware skript kiddies, that term is for the people who copy the common malware with at most a few edits or create Frankenstein creations out of multiple common sources.