Hey, you. Yeah, you. Everyone knows it's you - you anonymous hacker sitting in a darkened room by yourself, rubbing your hands together evilly while plotting mass destruction through your Internet viruses.
Stop it. Now. This isn't funny anymore. The new e-mail viruses attack students' computers after tricking them into downloading spam-stoppers from mail.msu.edu - it isn't funny.
What many of these people, who have nothing better to do than destroy private property, don't understand is that viruses aren't jokes. Sending something that deletes information and destroys computer systems is a malicious destruction of property. It's not any different than entering people's dorm rooms and smashing their computer towers with a hammer.
And while the viruses primarily are inconvenient, the costs can be outrageous when a computer needs to be repaired or replaced altogether.
Right now, this virus (in particular) is targeting MSU students. But as viruses become more sophisticated (along with the users who send them), they could start to target businesses and more important places, such as Sparrow Hospital or the Pentagon.
The society and the world we live in are based on an infrastructure built around computers, and when that system becomes damaged, the whole infrastructure fails.
Hackers have used the anonymity of the Internet for far too long. They destroy and infect unsuspecting computers, all while laughing maliciously at the latest episode of South Park and occasionally flipping to CNN to see if their havoc-wreaker is making headlines.
The funny thing is, you pathetic hackers somehow believe this makes you cool, even though no one knows that you are the technological mastermind of these viruses - but trust us, if people did know, you still wouldn't have a date.
Plus, the anonymity of the Internet only lasts for so long. The CIA soon will find you and invade your dorm room, scooping up all $30,000 worth of computing devices, and then it will be the poor, technologically impaired students with infected computers who will be having the last laugh.
