For at least some of these mischievous coders, the virus truly did serve as a creative medium. When asked about his view on destructive code in a 1997 interview, Spanska, the French lava master, replied: “I really do not like that…There are two principal reasons why I will never put a destructive code inside one my viruses. First, I respect other peoples’ work…The second reason is that a destructive payload is too easy to code. Formatting a HD? Twenty lines of assembler, coded in one minute. Deleting a file? Five instructions. Written in one second. Easy things are not interesting for the coder. I prefer to spend weeks to code a beautiful VGA effect. I prefer create than destruct [sic]. It’s so important for me that I put this phrase in my MarsLand virus: ‘Coding a virus can be creative.’”
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 00:15:19 +0000
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