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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. Source code by spakka · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, they will publish the assembly code. Not the same thing.

    1. Re:Source code by stanmann · · Score: 2, Informative

      IME, Dissassembled assembly reads logically.. ie top down, and stripped optimised compiler output looks like nasty vile spagetti. JMPs to arbitrary locations and JMPs back... But that is just my observation. perhaps compilers have gotten better since I last dissasemmbled source

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      Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
  2. Re:Good idea by monkey_tennis · · Score: 3, Informative

    Exactly right. As the link above shows the code is in assembley langauge, which most people would need some help with.

  3. Re:But the fact is..? by rkz · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why dont you then, I can't because the nearest place to me that sells it is about 50 miles away.

    They have got some brilliant articles in the magazine just look at their recent coverage of the Iraqi war and the tech used by Allied soldiers.
    Well I could always subscribe but I don't really want to spend $70.

    Anyway should be interesting to read!

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    There is no god
  4. Re:Mainstream press by (trb001) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Amen. I remember back in the late 80's, early 90's, a program that was popular among pirate BBS's, The Virus Creation Kit. It would basically take a set of destructive instructions (format HD, delete files, self-replicate, etc) and attach itself to an executable. Very nice little tool, any moron could have used it.

    This is nothing new. Anyone that complains about Wired's 'lack of responsibility' or other PC complaints is just ill-informed.

    --trb

  5. Re:So, by Paul+Boutin · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wired published the compete DeCSS Perl script, with an explanation of how it worked, under the headline "DVD Hacking for Dummies," three years ago. No one noticed.

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    Paul Boutin | writer for Slate, Wired, etc