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Has the RIAA Wormed 95% of P2P Networks?
DancingSword was one of many to submit links to a strange story about
the RIAA hacking back by sending a worm through the major peer-to-peer networks, supposedly with a 95% infestation rate. Hoax or not?
Anyone who owns a dog knows that "to worm" means to _get rid_ of worms, not to infect with them.
hyacinthus.
why all my porn has been changed to Hillary Rosen with a strap-on.
Hey, I found a copy of the worm's code:
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RIAA - 0wn3d by....
oooh riaa want's to hack Filesharing Users / Servers ? - better lern to secure your own server...
Sorry Admin - had to deactivate ur accounts - they'll be reactivated after 2 hours
greetz : Rage_X, BRAiNBUG, SyzL0rd, BSJ, PsychoD + all the others who want to stay anonymous
wanna contact ? mailto:h4x0r0815@mail.ru
Oh, wait, that was the RIAA's web page. Never mind!
I've got at least 7 mp3 downloads running right now and none of them appear to be infe($!$%. .AF0ERIAA.`/2#..-
Given the number of times the RIAA's website has been hacked, I'm guessing they're thinking the way you are...
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
I'm sure if you are only sending/receiving legal mp3 files you won't run across this worm. And we all know that slashdotters never download illegal files.
just a question, i just tried to log on to the RIAA site... and it seems to be down? Was their sysadmin maybe playing some o' them *bad* mp3's ???
The Awful Truth
If this is the case and they are distributing a binary based on GPL code from xmms/mpg123/etc. then don't they have to release the source as well?
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
Only 10% of the computers were really infected. But they were FAST computers, so they count as 95%.
Systrace is a nice toy, but unfortunately a flawed concept. There's a whitepaper from the NSA about the why, look on their selinux site (www.nsa.gov/selinux)
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
Wait a minute...
THAT'S NO STRAP-ON !
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
To anyone who's read their advisories in the past this comes as no surprise. Gobbles's sole motivator here is to draw attention. From their security advisories that sound as if they're written by a third grader, to their advisories posted in comic form on their highly deceptive website www.bugtraq.org I've seen little from them that demands respect.
Besides, if they were working with RIAA, wouldn't the RIAA also have paid them a few bucks to secure their site? If they have, wow, bang up job so far.
scott
It's definitely not true ;o)
No, Gobbles was the retarded turkey that Timmy befriended on one of the Thanksgiving episodes of South Park.
Hey kids, there's only 5 days left 'til Yak Shaving Day!
Well, bad sentence construction usually indicates an American. Apparently, the US public education system is merely designed to instill a yearning for low quality cars, fast food and WWE into it's students - spelling, grammar, mathematics and any kind of art or culture seems to be off the menu
Hm. Interesting.
By the way, where are you from, son? If I was to judge you from your post, as you have seen fit to judge others, I'd say, hmmmmm, let's see... Arrogant... Cowardly... ridiculously placing foot in mouth by mis-using it's while criticizing another nation's school system...
France?
Never use "RIAA" and "not [...] stupid enough" in the same sentence... It's bound to get you proved wrong.
easy enough to write a counter exploit that hunts down and removes the Gobbles virus/worm
And then send the riaa a fake list of digital media
- We are the slashdot. Resistance is futile. Prepare to be moderated -
"It took us about a month to develop the complex hydra, and another month to bring it up to the standards of excellence that the RIAA demanded of us."
Are they anything like the standards of excellence used by the RIAA webmasters?
WhatEVA
Maybe it's "the equivalent of 95%" (about 20 real percent).
Lets not forget who were dealing with here.... these are the same people who claimed confiscation of thousands of cdroms in a raid, when in fact it was just several fast cd burners.... their justifaction of the false numbers... These burners were really fast, thus they were equivalent to thousands of "Normal" cd burners...
they probably just got it to run on a couple of systems and then multiplied that by the number of users on the p2p net.
The Code Ninja is swift with his tool, precise in his delivery, and deadly accurate in his execution.
... They meant the EQUIVELANT of 95%.
In reality there is a total of 0.5% of infected computers. Some of these however have fast (over 1GHz proccessors), bringing the total percentage to the equivelant of 50%. Additionally some had large harddisks, allowing more illegal MP3's to be stored. Hence the equivellant of 95% whole computers.
Oh sorry guys, we didn't mean to infect the p2p networks, really. It turns out that one of the people responsible for manning our monitoring systems accidently infected the monitoring system with a virus which then found it's way into the p2p network. We're really sorry we know absolutely nothing about technology, oh and please go pay $18 for a cd instead of getting them off of a p2p network, it would really suck if you accidently got a virus because you used p2p.
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson
Where is the part about how the alien hybrids helped pitched a hand?
I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence. Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1845
40% of this probably counts all the copies of Brittney Spears and Backstreet Boys songs squirming across P2P, often masquerading as different files. Personally, I'd rather take a real virus than these - an Antivirus can find trojans but none of them seem to have a feature to detect boy/girl-band of the moment type audio files.
If they have the same people securing their web servers as "infesting" peer to peer networks I don't think we have much to worry about.
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Please view some screen shots from the last 96 hours.
http://iworktoomuch.com/images/riaa.com-download.
http://iworktoomuch.com/images/riaa.org.jpg
http://iworktoomuch.com/images/riaa_tooled_again.
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10)'