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This development worries security experts, because it means that virus writing is no longer exclusively a high-skill profession. By so freely sharing their work, the elite virus writers have made it easy for almost anyone to wreak havoc online. When the damage occurs, as it inevitably does, the original authors just shrug. We may have created the monster, they'll say, but we didn't set it loose. This dodge infuriates security professionals and the police, who say it is legally precise but morally corrupt. Like a collection of young Dr. Frankensteins, the virus writers are increasingly creating forces they cannot control and for which they explicitly refuse to take responsibility.
'Where's the beer?' Philet0ast3r wondered. An hour earlier, he had dispatched three friends to pick up another case, but they were nowhere in sight. He looked out over the controlled chaos of his one-bedroom apartment in small-town Bavaria. (Most of the virus writers I visited live in Europe; there have been very few active in the United States since 9/11, because of fears of prosecution.) Philet0ast3r's party was crammed with 20 friends who were blasting out punk band Deftones, playing cards, smoking furiously and arguing about politics. It was a Saturday night. Philet0ast3r, a 21-year-old with a small silver hoop piercing his lower lip, wears his brown hair in thick dreads. (Philet0ast3r is an online handle; he didn't want me to use his name.)
His friends finally arrived with a fresh case of beer and his blue eyes lit up. He flicked open a bottle using the edge of his cigarette lighter and toasted the others. A tall blond friend in a jacket festooned with anti-Nike logos put his arm around Philet0ast3r and beamed.
'This guy,' he proclaimed, 'is the best at Visual Basic.'