Your moment of zen

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=303695&f=24

NYT has an in depth piece on a new worm that is scaring the heck out of security folks. But in the midst of then piece there is this great graf:

"Yes, we are working on it, as are many others," said one botnet researcher who spoke on the grounds that he not be identified because of his plan. "Yes, it's illegal, but so was Rosa Parks sitting in the front of the bus."

If I ever end up in court I am totally stealing that line! And 'because of his plan' sounds insanely sketchy - who is he, Dr Evil?

On a related note, if government is worried about security vulnerabilities they could cut their risk.(and costs) by 25% if they just stopped buying Microsoft products. The value of their suite is integration and consistency of user experience, which are the things we completely suck at (and thus do not leverage).