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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
  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. SCO to sue ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. 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.