Originally posted by Gandalf Parker: GREAT IDEA!
Except that its already being done. If you check webopedia, wikipedia, the Jargon File, basically any Online internet dictionary instead of some old paper-book or TV/Movie/Media definition, you would see that hacking does not mean breaking into peoples computers. Its a tool and a method, not everyone is pulled to the dark side. In fact, there are more white-hat hackers than there are black-hats. At least in old net like newsGroups rather than new net like IRC
Yeah i know, i wasn't just referring to hackers. i'm talking about most people who create stuff with the sole idea of malicious damage to a computer or invading someone's files.
And Yeah there is a lot of "White hat" hackers around. These guys i respect. But My tactic isn't just to get those who have an actual conscience to toil for MS. Those guys should be paid and sent to a better company It's a way of teaching those who are on the "dark side" that 1. They can do something useful with their skills and 2. Crime doesn't pay to quote a cliche.
I can't think of any more fitting project than for these guys to work constantly on thousands, if not millions of lines of code that, in it's entirety forms Windows
The psychological therapy afterwards would certainly cost less than the annual damage done by viruses and other unsavoury acts of computer crime