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SCO Group Web Site Attacked Again
FreeLinux writes "With not much SCO news today, it seemed that this story was needed - Reuters is reporting that, SCO is again suffering under a DDoS attack that has crippled their web site and email system since Wednesday morning. For the third time this year, the SCO Group's Web site came under attack, apparently by hackers unhappy with the company's legal threats against users of the Linux operating system. The denial-of-service attack started at 6:20 a.m. EST Wednesday and continued through the day, said Blake Stowell, spokesman for the Lindon-based company."
that everytime Darl is sitting on the john dropping a deuce (of course, we know that he is full of shit) and clogs up the toilet, he blames it on a DOP (denial of plumbing) attack by Linux users!
Press release to follow.....
No trees were harmed in the composition of this; however, numerous electrons were inconvenienced.
SCO launches a lawsuit against the anonymous hackers.
In related news, SCO caims ownership of "ping", and will licence it starting at $1000.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
... for obvious reasons.
Simma down, now.
spokesman for the Lindon-based company
SCO is Linux-based company, not Lindon-based. What you probably meant to say is Lindows-based, but that's just plain incorrect. SCO is a Linux vendor.
Well, would, but we can't e-mail them documents anymore.
Looks like Rock, Paper, Scissors is the only remaining viable solution.
Are they dossed? it seems i can't connect to sco.com . Oh Wait, maybe it is slashdotted =)
...a Slashdotting?
Crybabies!
This Like That - fun with words!
More like "crying wolf", people. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Second Edition?!
It's all of those corporate Linux users beating down their door to buy licenses. Hurry and get yours today before they're all gone!
As seen on Wired: Get a free desktop PC
Come on, Slashdot ... putting SCO on the front page (multiple times sometimes) day after day after day ... and you don't call that deliberate Slashdotting^WDDoS?!
I call BS.
Expect letters from Boies and company any time now. "SCO Sues Media Giant Slashdot" the next headline?
Dlugar
Computer Go: Writing Software to Play the Ancient Game of Go
This story apparently inspired some poor systems peon at sco to set up email autoresponse to the email address mentioned in the story.
I tried it, it works. At least someone at SCO has some sense of humor.
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen
You can help out by clicking here....
You didn't think I meant you should help SCO out did you?...
How do I enlist my computer as a zombie in the horde to attack SCO?
Cyde Weys Musings - Scrutinizing the inscrutable
...playing for the sad souls at SCO...
If there not DDoS'ed yet, you could always /. 'em
At the risk of being redundant, At the risk of being redundant, here's the story http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200312101 63721614
I'm kind of surprised there aren't more comments about the fact that SCO is lying about this. Everything else seems irrelevent(sp) The guys at lwn made comments about checking the facts first before running with the story.
What?
I would like to suggest that, once this case is finally settled, Slashdot begin using the caldera systems icon for "Laugh, it's Funny" instead of the Monty Python foot. I know I already associate that blue and red C with a good humourous story.
Jedidiah.
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Ahhh, but you see the sco.com website runs on Linux...
An infinite number of monkeys will eventually come up with the complete works of
All of the current evidence points to a particular Linux user. But chances are they'll never be prosecuted, because SCO almost certainly didn't actually call any law enforcement, and it's not illegal, in any case, to shut down your own website.
(This would have fitted on a single CD. I think we should add environmental terrorism to the list of SCO's offences.)
Grow up. Settle it by the law.
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or atleast taking down the site the old fasion way... by posting it on
www.sco.com
wud
Wasn't it just a flood of Linux license payments?
"She's a West Texas girl, just like me" - G.W Bush Iraqis
so does that mean they can sue themselves?
Darl McBride, stumbling drunk (as usual) around SCO's headquarters, accidently tripped over the server's power cord.
SCO's technicians are busy working to fix the problem.
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Never criticize religion on Slashdot. You will be modded down for "Troll" no matter how factual it is.
If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
Beware the DOSferatu: The Children of the Byte, who reboot from the grave.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Especially since they are an enterprise scale company with a professional background in Unix(tm|c|$699) and we are a bunch of howling barbarian commie pinko liberal leftist joint smoking scum who have to steal their code to make a web worthy competitior.
The above was humour. Laugh, damn your eyes.
An infinite number of monkeys will eventually come up with the complete works of
They probably wanted to announce at the meeting on December 22 that, under cover of this DDoS, evil hackers broke in and deleted all the evidence SCO was surely about to hand over to the court. Then, having learned from OJ and the Ramsey parents, they'd go hire a detective to seek out the evil people responsible for the death of their case.
Get off my launchpad!
I object to being called that, exept for the howling barbarian pinko joint smoking scum part.
that's pretty dead on.
That was one of the most well-though-out, insightful replies I'll never read.
Distributed Denial of Stock?
SCO quicly respond by sending a quickfix pressrelease.
God is REAL! Unless explicitly declared INTEGER
They use Unixware, duh.
Anyhow folks, the consensus at Groklaw is that either SCO are lying through their teeth and this is all FUD, or their network admin staff are a bunch of incompetents.
Both!
For my prize, I'll take one Free copy of Mozilla Firebird.
Sometimes I wish I could mod someone to +10... great analysis!
C|N>K
www.boies-schiller.com [64.78.42.134]
mx records:
mail.bsfllp.com [65.212.67.25]
mail.aslan.net [208.28.44.3]
Whoops... fuck... I forgot, that's unethical and unprofessional.
Sorry, but that's really funny. Does their network switch have the words "Leper Colony" taped on it?
YLFIAfter the internet community discovered that SCO's web site was not really attacked and that their statement was bogus, SCO's IT directory explained that they were expecting people to find out that it was bogus:
"We were expecting to lose this argument with the internet community, but you need to consider that we do not have any security experience, in fact, our chief of security is a lawyer."
SCO mention that it is preparing a new statement on what happened but it may take them two weeks to come up with something new.
It is obvious to me that SCO has lost all compitent sys/net admins (who'd want to work for SCO these days anyway)and hired MCSE's to manage their Linux webservers.
Got SYN-cookie?
that Darl hung himself on the powercord from the webserver? Nah, to good to be true...
what are you talking about? come on...its SCO afterall. their systems crash with being DDoS or even a healthy /.ing
oh. Wait...
Bad hackers! Bad! No soup for you!
"terrorism" and "pedophilia" are the root passwords to the Constitution
Hell, *I* use Linux and dislike SCO, but this is just a tad unprofessional. OK, I'm kinda disgusted by this behavior - it destroys a moral "high ground" that might be useful to have shortly.
That's probably exactly why SCO is faking this DDoS attack.
Rock, Paper, Scissors is outdated and has been updated. To further the "paperless society", it's just Rock, Scissors. Daryl took the scissors and is running around with them sharp end pointed up. I guess we'll just have to find a rock to throw at him. Not the same but fun none the less!
Beware blue cats moving at
They had a 3rd person connect to their 2 user version of SCO Unix?
To know that you know what you know, and that you do not know what you do not know, that is true wisdom. --Scooby Doo
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
Darl already has the rock in his pipe, you'll have to find something else to throw at him.
wow. anecdotal evidence of some major anti-spam website which you conveniently forget the name of.
shit, i'm sold. where do i sign up for your newsletter? where do i send the donations?
"SYN flood" is obviously wrong... Unless they are running a system old enough to be called grossly negligent, they aren't susceptible to TCB starvation.
Well, there are no SYN cookies on SCO UnixWare/OpenServer systems. I say that based not only on the google search, but also reports from friends who used to run a large site on UnixWare until a few years ago.
I mean, SYN cookies are only 7 years old now. You can't expect a world-class technology innovator like SCO to have implemented them quite that quickly, can you?
Linux having SYN cookies just proves that Linux is a bicycle. Or something like that.
How can I contact this Center7? I want to be isolated from SCO!
warning: This post is likely to contain gobs of dripping sarcasm. Consume at your own risk.
It's always about SCO. I'm still waiting to see a MS-DOS attack. Oh, wait...
(no sig)
Darl (screams): I want that network fixed now!
Kevin: Ah sorry bruv, can't seem to find anyone who knows anything about 'computers'. Plenty of lawyers though. Mr Boise says he'll have a look as he's got a a friend who's got an MCSE.
The public has no idea what a email blacklist is, or why they're important for fighting spammers.
As a member of the public, I want you to know that I am offended by your use of the term "blacklist".
It is offensive to all African-Americans and other People of Color. Why must "black" always be equated with "bad", when exploitative White male colonizers are the source of all evil in the world?
You might as well perpetuate the culture of oppression by referring to some disk drives as "Master", and some as "Slave".
I will petition the Los Angeles City Council to ban the use of these "blacklists" altogether!
I urge my fellow easily offended perpetually victimized knee-jerk progressives to join me in this vitally important crusade.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
So then... if I've understood correctly, the SCO site hasn't been "h4x0red," it's been "h04xored..."
--Mark
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"It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too." --Eugene Wigner
Linux's Hypocrisy Buffer probably overflowed, so it automatically deinstalled. Either that, or the kernel panicked and left the building.
Watch for D'ohl and co to explain that they had to replace their Linux server with UnixWare 'coz "Linux couldn't take the heat". Whackers.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
It is offensive to all African-Americans and other People of Color.
Pure black is the absence of light and hence no colour; white is a mixture of all the different colours. Therefore, your use of the term "People of Color" is inaccurate.
Furthermore, it has come to my attention that the terms "black" and "white" are being used to describe people with lightish and darkish skin. This is offensive to people with truly white skin, such as a resident of the British Isles the day before they leave for their annual holiday in the sun (put that bloody t-shirt back on, the glare is blinding me).
The same people can claim to be the only true redskins, when they return home two weeks later, looking like lobsters.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I'm hauling your sorry ass into court, pronto.
"Slashdot - News and Chat Sites Deviant". (Click "homepage" link above for details).
So after a DOS attack, Slashdot posts an article about the attack, thereby starting another attack.
Sig it.
For the love of God!
You're talking about Osirusoft, monkeys.com, and compu.net!
Sheesh... I'm glad at least ONE of us spends way too much time on Slashdot and can actually remember this crap.
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