Nosce te ipsum

To the collective web at large, we're sorry. Jack Campbell is a moron and he most certainly does not reflect the views of your average Mac user. He's done some dumb things in the past but this is certainly reaching new levels of stupidity, even for him.

By now you're probably aware of the huge brouhaha that erupted upon the Macsphere over the weekend. For those of you who wisely avoid the web on the weekends the brief version is as follows: Jack Campbell of DVForge issued a press release offering a $25,000 reward to the first person to write a virus that happened to infect two Macs running OS X in Hendersonville, Tennessee. In perhaps the least surprising turn of events since quick and uniformly unfavorable. Shortly thereafter the contest was scrapped. (All mention of the contest has been removed from DVForge's press release page as of this writing)