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Stories · 3
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Curious Yellow, Superworm
jpmccord writes "Brandon Wiley's white paper, Curious Yellow, explains how "a superworm -- a worm that coordinates it actions among infected hosts and launches a massive distributed denial of service attack on any hosts it can't infect using those it can" (via disLEXia, a weblog by Maximillian Dornseif). The "doomsday scenario" frightens "even us", says Dornseif. An accompanying discussion rebukes Wiley's article a bit. Aaron Swartz's light-hearted take is rather entertaining: "So go read it now and find out how you can take over the whole Internet. And if you're going to, could you give me 24 hours notice?"" -
Blogger Hacked
WCityMike writes "Blogger has been severely hacked into, with users' passwords and e-mail addresses being replaced with 'hacx0redbyme' or 'hax0redbyme.' Apparently, attempts to change your password or other information do not succeed due to a major database problem. Blogger currently has no official news: its main page simply apologizes for being down for repairs and its status blog has no information, probably suffering from the same accessing problem as other blogs. In the meantime, discussion, information, and advice is appearing on the weblogs of Anil Dash and Tom Coates, as well as this QuickTopic thread. Glad I use another journaling service." We usually try to avoid "Site X Hacked!" stories, but since this affects so many people - and, heh-heh, they don't have anywhere else to talk about it - here you go. -
Industry-Stacked DRM Workshop in D.C. Today
epeus writes: "The U.S. Commerce Department is holding a workshop on DRM today, and inviting 'stakeholders' to talk. The panel is loaded with the usual suspects -Jack Valenti, Mitch Glazier, Vivendi, Disney, Microsoft and Intel, with one 'customer' repesentative. Richard Stallman and the NY Fair Use group are going to protest and say that We are the stakeholders -- our computers are our stake, and DRM is theft. If you can't go, send in your comments or read mine"