"There must have been a virus on the duplicating machine and we didn't know about it. This incident is unfortunate and we are doing what we can do to rectify it. We can't apologise enough. We screwed up."
- Cult of the Dead Cow spokesman confirming that the CD-Rom of the Back Orifice 2000 program released at a DefCon (see report, left) was infected with the CIH virus which can reformat hard drives and damage the BIOS information that the computer needs to operate.