Interview With Sarah Gordon
One of the victims of Dark Avenger's viruses was Sarah Gordon, a computer security researcher. Gordon became intrigued with the virus, and joined a virus-exchange BBS in search of more information. Thus, she randomly came upon Dark Avenger, who was an avid visitor of BBSes himself. The two came into contact and maintained it through emails for a good several years. Eventually, Sarah Gordon compiled most of these e-mails into a makeshift interview.
The interview is the best insight into Dark Avenger's personality and motives and it contains some valuable information. Dark Avenger had previously stated on several occasions that "destroying data is a pleasure". However, in this interview, he confesses that he regrets his actions, and that they were not right. The degree to which Dark Avenger exposes himself to Sarah Gordon has led many to believe that he held a deep affection for her. He even went as far as devoting one of his viruses to her.
It has been suggested by some virus writers that the Dark Avenger personality was a social experiment and Gordon was the object of a study herself, while helping build the myth. Others have hypothesized that she herself was Dark Avenger. In reality, her work has been externally validated, and is recognized as the seminal scientific/academic work on the topic.
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