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Free Software Hits Back at Crackers
flokemon writes "This article from the Register announces the release of some free software from Backfire Security called Payback. "The software has the ability to instantly and dynamically 'trace' the IP source address - no matter how well masked - of the network attack/infection and respond by launching either a Domain Name or Mail Server flood attack in the direction of the attacker." This raises quite a few questions though, the legality of the software first, and I'm not really convinced that this would hit back at hackers more than it would hit back at infected servers." Hopefully those would be crackers will think twice now before engaging in their 31337 activities!
Aren't April Fools jokes supposed to at least be funny? Seriouusly now...
...a.k.a. April Fool's day. Remember when the jokes were really like, "HA HA, GOTCHA!" Now their about at bright as a crackhead trying to get past "J" with a crayon on wallpaper.
Looks like today is going to be a C-Strike day!
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Hmm, so far all the stories have been very transparent and rather shallow.
... but that passed.)
Somebody give me a good April Fools hoax that I will actually belive, pls.
(Gento Lunux was good and had me beating up my monitor for a bit
1) There haven't been any real articles today so far
2) All the jokes so far aren't even remotely believable
I remember the fun we had last year with some well-crafted stories. (In particular I remember a lot of flames generated over Linus quitting kernel development). The fraction of hoaxes was more than it should have been, but not as bad as this.
Anyway, about the article in question, note that backfire security doesn't exist, nor does Archie Mendoza.