That is not true. You end up wasting people's time. People are dragged
into the office at strange hours. Reports have to be written. A lot of
yelling and screaming occurs. You have to deal with law enforcement.
These are all side effects of someone going for a joy ride in someone
else's system, even if they don't do any damage. Someone has to pay
the price.'
McMahon never found out who created the WANK worm. Nor did he ever
discover what he intended to prove by releasing it. The creator's
motives were never clear and, if it had been politically inspired,
no-one took credit.
The WANK worm left a number of unanswered questions in its wake, a
number of loose ends which still puzzle John McMahon. Was the hacker
behind the worm really protesting against NASA's launch of the
plutonium-powered Galileo space probe? Did the use of the word
`WANK'--a most un-American word--mean the hacker wasn't American? Why
had the creator recreated the worm and released it a second time? Why
had no-one, no political or other group, claimed responsibility for
the WANK worm?
One of the many details which remained an enigma was contained in the
version of the worm used in the second attack.
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