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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?""
It could also submit every computer it couldn't infect as containing something of interest to the slashdot community. Who needs a ddos attack?
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The Slashdot community may be faced with the "Curious Yellow Post" that may take over all other slashdot news in just a few days...
If anyone attempts to post other news it will immediately be taken off the site and replaced by a link to the "Curious Yellow Post"...
"I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." -George H.W. Bush
Then I guess there's nothing we can do. The Internet is doomed.
... after I get a new Passport ID, that is.
Still, I know I'll be able to read about the new one on MSNBC.newtld a day or two afterwards
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
Terribly so. And wouldn't it be funny if the weblog where this piece of information came from had gotten it from the original slashdot piece? Talk about slashdotting slashdot... :)
shana
Come on Pinky, let's prepare for tomorrow evening.
Why Brain? What are we going to do tomorrow evening?
Same as every evening, we try to take over the Internet!
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Karma 50, and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.
Anti-virus companies Norton and Sophos today announced they had spotted a new virus in the wild. According to anti-virus experts a new virus known only as "Curious Yellow" has been attacking the popular Slashdot.org site.
The site has already been hit twice, with a story appearing on their main 'articles' section. The virus has been spoofing known slashdot editors such as 'Hemos' and 'michael'. The site has yet to comment on these attacks, but have warned there is a risk that further variants may attack their 'slashback' section later this week.
So far there is no known cure for this virus.
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Little. Yellow. Different.
www.timcoleman.com is a total waste of your time. Never go there.
I would be more worried if the worm ran around breaking things and choking children, like
furious yellow.
"Anyway, long story short... is a phrase whose origins are complicated and rambling...." - Abraham Simpson
A lot of people died when the stock market "shut down" in 1929.
Tell me about it. I'm gonna throw myself off the roof if Old Man Murray doesn't come back online by the end of the week.
I don't know what I'd do if the entire *Internet* shut down...
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you make it think your infected, and it wont attack you.