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Strategies & Market Trends : Level II Trading

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To: Gorak Shep who wrote (983)4/2/1999 1:46:00 PM
From: Feathered Propeller  Read Replies (2) of 1086
 
Gorek...-OT Partial- <"It is very dangerous to do such things on a store machine. Forewarned is forearmed.">

I think that is excellent advice, but, at the same time is ANY machine safe?

Witness today's arrest of David L. Smith, apparent originator of the "Melissa virus", found through the use of Microsoft's "GUID". I am glad they found him, but is the good news that they were able to track him down... or the bad news that they were able to track him down.

msnbc.com
and
zdnet.com

and if that isn't enough to foster some question of perspective, then how about this issue in the Minnesota courts, posted by "Moonray" over on the "COMS and Other Stuff" thread:

<<To: DMA (18545 )
From: Moonray Thursday, Apr 1 1999 7:07PM ET
Reply # of 18561

Sorry, but there IS no privacy in Minnesota:

zdnet.com

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