14 DAY TRIAL // Robert McMillan of IDG News Service had an interview with Samy Kamkar, the creator of the Samy worm which brought probably some of the most important damages for social networking service MySpace. In case you forgot, Samy's threat didn't harm MySpace through infections or other dangerous files because all it did was to place the "But most of all, Samy is my hero" at the end of users' profiles. Because of that, Samy is not allowed to use the computer for personal purposes anymore, the only permitted activities being related to job matters.
Asked where the idea to create the worm came from, Samy said: "When I wrote the worm, it initially wasn't a worm. Initially I was just trying to spruce up my MySpace profile. I also wanted to show off to a couple of friends, so I thought, "Wouldn't it be cool if I did this? What if I made some of these people add me as a friend automatically?" Then I figured, "What if I made them add me as a hero?" So I wrote a little code and what ended up happening is whenever someone viewed my profile, they would automatically add "But most of all, Samy is my hero" at the end of their hero section on their profile. And after that, I thought, "If I can make this person my friend, if I can make myself their hero, couldn't I just copy this code onto their profile?"
As I said, Samy is not allowed to use his personal computer so everyone is curios to find out which is the first thing to do when he'll be allowed to access the PC again, "The first thing I'm going to do when I can use a computer again is probably just get back into development on the site and write projects that are interesting to me and nonmalicious. No more worms," he said for IDG News Service.
"I think in the future, I'd be happy to help out because they actually provide a pretty cool site. Right now, I'm involved in one project with one company, but in the future, that's definitely an option," Samy answered when he was asked if he would like to work for MySpace.
The full interview is available on the official page of InfoWorld.