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Wired To Publish Slammer Source Code

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the here-take-two-copies dept.

Juan Carlos writes "Wired Magazine is going to publish the source code to the SQL Slammer worm in its next issue, due Tuesday, along with some kind of play-by-play of the worm's rapid spread. I actually think this is a neat idea for an article. But the fact is, the disassembly of Slammer (aka Sapphire) has been available on the Net since late January -- just hours after the worm started to spread."

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  1. You can picture it now.... by MosesJones · · Score: 5, Funny


    Reader : "I wonder if they've patched the internal servers here at work...."

    Types in the slammer code, compiles it and runs it up...

    Reader : "Nothing seems to be happening"

    Meanwhile in another part of the building

    Manager: "What do you mean the whole UAT environment has gone down?"

    --
    An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
    1. Re:You can picture it now.... by archen · · Score: 3, Funny

      If the users on the network I admin actually started compiling their own code, I'd shoot myself. It's bad enough not getting them to click on every attachment. God knows what they would compile on their own.

  2. But that doesn't mean... by Advocadus+Diaboli · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that SQL-Slammer is going to be Open Source, does it?

    1. Re:But that doesn't mean... by ecalkin · · Score: 4, Funny

      the original code was (is) copyrighted, assuming it was written in a country that has copyright laws.

      somehow i don't think that the owner of this copyright is gonna be knocking on the door to complain.

  3. Bring down the internet without complicated worms by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 3, Funny

    June 5, 2003 -- Think of it as a how-to guide to bringing down the Internet.

    Here's my guide :

    1 - unplug the network cable

    Very effective DoS : nobody will be able to see your server from outside and your network connection will become very slow.

    --
    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  4. SCO to sue ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... they had better pray that SCO code isn't used in it.

  5. Warning! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    A new vulnerability has been found in IE that exploits the feature of automatically executing machine code viewed in a text file.