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Reflections on Brilliant Digital: Single Points of 0wnership

nweaver writes "Some reflection on Brilliant Digital's plans shows that they have inadvertently created a Single Point of 0wnership: a single machine or small group of machines which, if succesfully attacked, can be used to gain effective control of the Internet. The implications are rather scary: Even if you never touched KaZaA, your systems may be affected if someone manages to attack Brilliant Digital's update service. Who needs a Warhol Worm?".Updated by HeUnique: use these instructions to remove the Brilliant part.

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  1. fp? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    my try get fp! hehehahahaa

  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

    >A HREF="http://goatse.cx/">Chris Sologuk is a raging homosexual!

  3. Kazaa is junk... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    just install Grokster - it is the exact same thing. you can get it at download.com - it doesn't have all the crappy spyware.

    _
    WINDOWS USERS CLICK HERE NOW!

  4. The article might be slightly more impressive... by Crag · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...if the author had closed his h3 tag.

    The page shows up all bold and centered on mozilla.

    As to the actual content, an event like this would last about as long as the time yahoo et all were DDoS'd. The media would play it up as a big deal, and we techs would just fix it.

    I'm not impresseed.

  5. Re:Full text - yeah, karma whoring rules ;-) by Fecal+Troll+Matter · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your blatant whoring has turned the tables. slut. I'm glad you've been modded down. Perhaps now you'll know not to whore on my watch.

  6. Re:Sleeze. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Let's sacrifice them to our God!!
    C'mon, we did it all the time back in the 70s!!

  7. 0wnz0red!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    0wnz0red!!

  8. Re:Dumb..Very Dumb by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You are working with morons!! I feel sorry for you. You should have co-workers who are professional 'cause obviously you are professional. Otherwise you would probably not hang around here on Slashdot.

  9. Re:0, not O by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ha! i was mariginaly ahead of you!

    C_nemo

  10. Re:The post is a rant! by chialea · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Um... nick's a grad student. he's not disgruntled. he's about to get his PhD, just finishing up the thesis. I'd also submit that dismissing people is not always a good idea, and dismissing all grad students is certainly not a good idea. I'm willing to bet a lot of money that there are some of em who are smarter than you are, at any rate, just as there are certainly some who are more intelligent than I.

    Lea

  11. Re:Dumb..Very Dumb by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, here I am, waiting to get owned for over a year now.

    In the meantime, I've downloaded heaps of mp3's and porn movies.

    Pretty good trade off if you ask me.

  12. This could be used for good... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    maybe the hacker who does this could have a conscience, and shutdown http://www.goatse.cx ?