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al Qaeda Hacks XP?
acaird writes "According to this article at Newbytes, members of al Qaeda may have worked for Microsoft and planted "trojans, trapdoors, and bugs in Windows XP"."
This stuff screams of hoax to me, but it is showing up on the Washington
Post.
If this goes on..."Next week on Jerry Springer: Bill Gates is sleeping with my sister!"
Carousel is a lie!
In other news, the moon landings were faked, Linux is quickly taking over the desktop, and Nintendo's GameCube has surpassed the PS2 in sales.
I heard they also worked for Firestone and sabotaged their tires!!!
Unless they commented there code:
security_hole();       /*b1n l@d1n r00lz!*/
Objects in the blog are closer then they ap
And they even left OVER 700 SEKRET MESSAGES IN THE SOURCE CODE!
/usr/src/linux | wc -l
Observe:
% grep -ir 'a.*l.*q.*a.*e.*d.*a'
704
Time to outlaw leenuks, I say.
// zyqqh
From the article:
According to Desler, Microsoft has rigorous processes in place during the development of Windows to ensure the security and integrity of source code
I can sleep easier now.
Sigs are so 1990s. No way would I be seen dead with one.
These backdoors, trojans, etc. are rendered useless by the backdoors, trojans, etc. the NSA placed in XP.
And monkeys might fly out of my butt.."
Thank you.
So thats who coded Outlook! 10 bucks says they were in on the whole Passport thing too!
If it ain't a Model M, it's a piece of crap.
"This stuff screams hoax to me, but it's showing up on the washington post"
Can we mod down a statement in an article as being redundant? The washington post all but invented "ready-shoot-aim" journalism.
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
then the terrorists have won.
This just found in winsock.dll in XP:
seineewerastsisrorretadeuqla
just = (My)Opinion.toCents();
last time I checked, these afganhis were hacking and downloading movies with a commodore 64 (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/17/20420 7&mode=thread)
...no other explanation needed.
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"I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an emperor just because some moistened bink had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away! "
- Dennis the Filth Collector.
has found the following phrase:
"!seineeW era tnemnrevoG SU"
mp3's are only for those with bad memories
I heard that members of al Qaeda had infiltrated Slashdot and were sabotaging the quality of reporting.
Oh wait, Taco has always posted retarded stuff.
As bad as the spelling is here, do note that every spelling is just a transliteration from that gibberish that the terrorists are calling a language. It's not even written left-to-right, for crying out loud!
So, does this mean goodbye to the "Bluescreen of Death" and hello to the "Bluescreen of Holy Vengeance?"
If it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
So something like a flight simulator in a spreadsheet program would never make it into a released product...
Back under your bridge, troll.
Well now that they've routed the enemy, we can expect future versions of MS OSes to be bug and exploit-free.
BWAHAHAHAHAA
m00.
Just put this in a .REG file and the evil will be revealed...
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08- 00AA002F954E}]
@="Recycle Bin Laden"
We'll know it terrorists slipped code into XP, because if they do, they'll make it support raw port access for non-priviledged users. Clearly only a terrorist would do that, so it'll be a dead giveaway.
(Outside of an Al Queda recruitment center)
"OK, people. Line to the left is suicide bombers, center line is front line soldiers, right-hand, nefarious computer geeks."
or
(2 terrorists meet to discuss their accomplishments)
"I have struck a great blow against Satan! I have planted bombs and anthrax!"
"I, too, have stuck a great blow!"
"What did you do?"
"Improper bounds checking in msetl23.dll! I used my own hasty, roll-your-own strcpy()! And as a final coup de gras*, I stole 3 product activation keys and gave them to Best Buy employees"
Please.
* terrorists may not actually use phrases like this. Consult your manual.
ZOMG I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS ON MACINTOSH VERSUS WINDOWS, VI VERSUS EMACS, AND HOW YOU'RE NOT A DORK
Poor ``osama'' user... every other user instantly becomes root, except for him (sorry, couldn't resist - but this is another reason why strcmp() is pure evil sometimes) ;-)
# chflags noschg /bin/laden
/bin/laden
/bin/laden removed. Will replace with something even more evil.
/bin/microsoft /bin/laden
/bin/laden
/bin/microsoft
/bin/laden
# rm -f
Warning: Utitilty
# ln
# chflags schg
# chflags schg
Thank you for removing
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Members of the militant group Hamas have claimed responsibility for file corruption issue found in the Linux 2.4.15 kernel.
Microsoft has rigorous processes in place during the development of Windows to ensure the security and integrity of source code.
muahahaha, now, *THAT* was funny.
Stability...
Two wrongs makes a right, doesn't it?
It turns out that al Qaeda is actually a bitter DR-DOS user group.
With all the hype about XP embedded lately.
//as if this is a different code path
I can see the following code hidden:
if (hardware == plane)
crash();
Who needs to sacrifice pilots.
Sounds to me like al-Qaeda is just looking to take credit for the chaos caused by others.
"You will feel our wrath in the endless bugs and security holes in Windows XP!"
What's next? "We will cause random car accidents in busy intersections and will lace cigarettes with deadly carcinogens!" OOooo, their prophecies are coming true, everybody! Head for the hills!
Microsoft is just trying to compete with open source. It claims that open source is full of religious fanatics, so it's going all out and hiring even more extreme religious fanatics.
7:30p. This just in - We have learned that the alleged Al Qaeda computing complex was destroyed. US Marines were seen removing five hourglasses, an abacus, and a piece of aluminum foil that were allegedly behind a massive recent distributed denial of service.
The evaluation of an action as 'practical' . . . depends on what it is that one wishes to practice.
Also, don't forget the ones that are there by poor implimentation. You know, like sound files in email that get executed without warning.
Also, don't forget the ones that are there due to poor design. You know, like an email client that runs as root because there are no real user accounts and the underlying file system will not support that and ....
Don't forget to combine all of the above with poor judgement. Well, running M$ with anything but in single user non networked air gap protected mode is poor judgement. Worse judgement is attatching a camera and an always on high speed internet connection in your freaking bedroom, ha-ha(banned in Saudi Arabia).
Alah-Akbar. It's true you know.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
"Bill Gates holds press release on Al Qaeda hacks in Windows XP."
Redmond- Bill Gates today held a press release to confirm the presence of "hacked" code in the Windows XP product, and admitted for the first time that all previous versions of Windows also had "hacked" code inserted maliciously by covert Al Qaeda operatives within the Microsoft Corporation. "We have confirmed the presence of this code in all versions of Microsoft Windows from 3.0 to XP. The code we have found was planted by covert Al Qaeda operatives who were employed by Microsoft for years. This was a long-term terrorist operation planned years in advance and executed with frightening efficiency. We have investigated the code and found it to be the cause of instability in Windows products. As a matter of fact, the infamous "Blue Screen of Death" was in fact an Al Qaeda trojan. We will be release a full list in the coming week of all the Windows problems that the Al Qaeda terrorists are responsible for after a full investigation of all the things that make Windows suck."
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Ahhh, it all makes sense now. No matter how hard I tried, I could never land properly in MS Flight Simulator.
I'm sitting here on a Windows box right now, and the very idea that Al Qaeda could get jobs at MS, hack the s@$%%$#%#%Die American Scum@$#@$@#$ is just ludicrous. I mean, learning how to fly a plane is one thing but !Q%#@$^%@#$^#$$The blood of the infidels will run red in the streets!%@#$%%#$%$%getting a CS degree, getting hired by MS, and then slipping all those hacks through the system? That strains my credulity.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
At only $27,000 each, a Daisy Cutter would be both faster and cheaper than waiting for the courts to break up Microsoft.
Even Slashdot wants to hide some things
They were planting features, not trojans or trapdoors.
Yeah, I'm sure Bill was real pissed when the lid was blown off that little hack.
Get a clue. If your a PHB code reviewer at MS, there's a big difference between finding out your programmers have actually been having a little fun on the job with a hidden easter egg, and trying to figure out the functionality of backdoorforallah.dll.
Obviously this is a hoax, any terrorist worth two cents would know already that Microsoft doesn't NEED any sabotage to mess up their OS.
Of course, MS will probably stop calling every bug a 'feature' and claim its a terrorist attack - I'm surprised that, what with all the tack-ons to the antiterrorism bills being passed, MS hasn't tried to get Linux, BSD, Mac, or any other OS labelled as terrorist software.
No, english is enough of a gibberish tongue on it's own without terrorists. :)
THey obviously used the excel easter egg flight simulator to train the hijakers!!!
All Troll + "offtopic" mods are meta moderated as "Unfair", because you abused the system.
From my experiences with XP, it seems like Al Qeada haven't been the only ones putting bugs in XP.
Approximately 5835 winboxes crashed while you were reading this post. Thank you.
My policy is half of that: the first half!
Latest news reports advise that a cell of 4 terrorists have been operating at the Boeing Renton site. Police advised earlier today that 3 of the 4 have been detained.
Boeing security stated that the terrorists Bin Sleepin, Bin Drinkin and Bin Fightin have been arrested on immigration issues. The Police advise further that they can find no one fitting the description of the fourth cell member, Bin Workin, in the area. Police are confident that anyone who looks like Bin Workin will be very easy to spot in the plant.
Ask them questions they won't know the answers to.
Like talk about the Grey Screen of Death and see if they notice. Or see if they can tell you what TCP/IP stands for - hint - it's not Taliban Control Program/Intifada Protocol like they think.
And if they don't get all hot and bothered by the BSD booth babes, you know they must be terrorists.
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--- Will in Seattle - What are you doing to fight the War?
I don't know about you guys, but how the hell to you "pose" as a programmer? Either you are, or your not!
lol
I think next week maybe I'll pose as a surgeon or a lawyer and get a raise!
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