NewsForge has an interesting A peek at script kiddie culture(link is external). This story disputes many of the "security by obscurity" myths abounding in the closed source world--stating that the vulnerability exploited by the Blaster virus was known in script kiddie circles months before Microsoft claimed to discover the problem.

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