MySpace Hacker Interviewed

The guys over at Google Blogoscoped interviewed the hacker (Samy) who recently wrote a worm that spread all over the MySpace.

Samy earlier this month wrote a worm that spread all over the MySpace web community – infecting everybody that crossed its path with “instant friendship�, thus gaining Samy more than a million friends before the MySpace team disabled the worm (taking pretty much the whole site offline to do so). The automatically included message “samy is my hero�, however, remains in thousands of homepages. I’ve email-interviewed Samy, who’s from Los Angeles (and likes to stay anonymous here).

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