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Whiteboard: Who writes the worms?
It's not necessarily the people spreading the worms who first found the vulnerabilities and created the break-in code
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The answer might surprise you. The bad guys couldn't spread the worms if the good guys hadn't first found the vulnerabilities and created the break-in code.