Trojan.Html.Doss Virus

Hackers are in the news once again. Denial of service, email fraud, these are not as big a problem as the root of it all. The people that cause a website like Disney.com or Clashforclunkers.gov to overload with hits certainly do cause problems and should be punished like any criminal act. The underlying cause of a majority of these type problems start in the school system.

For several years our children soon to be the back bone of the country, have become hackers not always by choice. Teachers of the 8th grade take harmless innocent kids and teach them computer programming. Of course with the internet, programming can learned online if not in the classroom. Just teaching programming to these kids don't make them hack your computer. I learned from my nephew that he writes progsin a contest with peers. Progs or programs as kids call them like Trojan.html.doss, a virus, are made or written by kids. They crawl the internet, travel the superhighway in emails and attack your pc. Viruses and spyware are a big business, A large number companies of are make living from kids attacking computers. From O'Reilly Media "The most popular targets are network bandwidth, system memory, network stack memory, disk I/O, operating system limitations such as a limit on the number of open file handles, and the CPU. These bottlenecks can be on your systems or in your network hardware"

I do know companies hire hackers to try and defeat attacks on their system either before or after the hack has taken place. Aids (a Trojan) makes the target computer useless completely. From Wikipedia Aids is described in detail to take control and encrypt the files on the target pc and giving the user a message to send $378 to a company, the money goes to a P.O. Box in Panama. Security is hard at work to combat this type of malicious attack. One must ask if hiring hackers is really way to combat hacking.

I believe only a student with 2 years college has proven to be mature enough to learn programming, stop teaching it in high school. Make the punishment very severe. If a hacker knew if caught he would spend 40 years behind bars, hacking would then slow down. Too many crimes have a low punishment giving the criminal a chance to be released after six months. Even the crime of rape the punishment of three years allows the criminal to be released after 6 months counting the time served as part of the sentence. Hackers that have been caught upon release after as much as five years are told not use a computer. What good does that do?