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SCO Offers $250K Bounty for MyDoom Author's Arrest
Performer Guy writes "This SCO press release indicates that they are offering a $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest & conviction of the MyDoom DDoS worm authors. Let's hope they catch them. Not merely because MyDoom is one of the most mindless attacks on our internet infrastructure in memory, but also when they pay up it'll be less cash for SCO's litigation engine."
Thanks to Tin Foil Hat and prostoalex for pointing out links at ComputerWorld and CNET, too. Related to this: stealth.c writes "Bruce Perens has written a letter to the Open Source community, discouraging us from cheering on the MyDOOM virus, as it would falsely implicate the FOSS communities and almost certainly cause the success of the virus writer's mission of discrediting these movements. This letter is also posted on NewsForge and on Groklaw." Unfortunately, with columns like this one blaming the worm on "some ticked-off Linux fan", it needs to be said.
It's that SCO thinks that MyDoom's source code is owned by them. :)
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
"Due to low cash flow at SCO, the reward will be paid upon successful judgements in the lawsuits against IBM, Redhat, Novell, et. al."
...350 licenses to Linux.
OT, but I just submitted the story below. Since this is an SCO thread, and -Taco probably isn't going to post 2 SCO stories in a row, here it is:
/. readers! The SCO "litigious bastards" linking campaign has succeeded! SCO is now the first link on a Google search for litigious bastards. (If you try a "I'm Feeling Lucky" search, it'll still go to SCO, but it looks like the SCO site is down.)
:-(, and mirror!
Thank you to all
Congratulations, everybody!
On a side note, simply searching for "bastards" brings up SCO). If Google happens to notice and block it (as in the past), a screenshot is here. Please be kind to my server
cheer on attacks on the SCO site ... Our community believes in ... silencing our opponent's speech through net attacks. We will defeat SCO ... by gagging them.
No idea.
Website about Linux Stealing SCO Code, read the page very carefully, don't be too quick to hit your browsers back button (hint,hint) http://www.linuxstolescocode.com
Scene - the virus writer's parents' basement
Script Kiddie #1: OK, dude, like, I got the, y'know, latest version of, like, Virus Creator, dude.
Script Kiddie #2: Swheeet! Dude, like, run it!
Script Kiddie #1: Fuxor! Like, I clicked on it, and, like, it didn't go!
SK2: Dude! You have to, like, double click! Lamer!
SK1: STFU! I know that! Fag!
SK1: Uhhh, like, it's doing sumthing. Oh - kewl! It's like, installing stuff.
SK2: Shweet! Man, this rox!
Virus Creator: Virus Creator Wizard - page 1 of 5 - Do you want to install a backdoor? [yes] [no] [help]
SK1: Shweet! Yeah, let's set up my army of zombies! Huh-huh-huh!
Virus Creator: Virus Creator Wizard - page 2 of 5 - Do you want to install a spam relay? [yes] [no] [help]
SK2: Dude! We can, like, make money! Do it, dude!
Virus Creator: Virus Creator Wizard - page 3 of 5 - Do you want to install an HTTP relay ? [yes] [no] [help]
SK1: WTF? (clicks help)
Virus Creator: This lets us serve PR0N through your zombies - click yes and we will let you have the password to see some of it.
SK1 and SK2 (together): DUDE! SHWEEET!
Virus Creator: Virus Creator Wizard - page 4 of 5 - Do you want to DDOS somebody ? [yes] [no] [help]
SK2: Yeah!
Virus Creator: Virus Creator Wizard - DDOS setup - Who do you want to DDOS? [enter URL here]
SK1: Who should we fuxor? School?
SK2: DUDE! If you fuxor school how can we look at pr0n during class? (dope-smacks SK1)
SK1: OW! Fag! OK, uhhh, dude, like, the RAII?
SK2: YEAH! Fuxoring with our MP3s!
Virus Creator: Virus Creator Wizard - URL "www.raii.com" not found - try again [enter URL here]
SK2: Fuxor!
SK1: Dude, like, what's something with less letters, man?
SK2: SCO?
SK1: Yeah! FUXOR JOO, SCO!
Virus Creator: Virus Creator Wizard - page 5 of 5 - Virus ready - click here to email [ok]
SK1 and SK2 (together): SHWEET!
In other words, I think the DDOS against SCO is incidental to the real purpose of this virus - which is to spread spam. Like as not the choice of SCO was just because they are in the news, and to shift the blame to somebody else.
www.eFax.com are spammers
Sadly, the reward is being offered in shares of SCOX stock.
Viv
Gmail invites for ip
IOW..
1. Release virus to DDoS SCO
2. Go to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison
3. ???
4. Profit!
that's why i've begun outsourcing all my virus-writing to india, where the programmers aren't spoiled by "health insurance" or "a living wage" or "the requirement of staying out of prison".
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
No No No..
I did it.
I used a combination of Visual Basic and Commodore 64 Logo.
Deposit the $250,000 in my Swiss Bank Account and I'll be at your office first thing Monday morning with the source. You can check to see whether it has any of the Unix code that you 'own'.
I might have to spend a year in jail (maybe even a little more if they find out about the thing with the seeds in the parking lot of the Grateful Dead show back in 1978). But after that I'll be free with $250,000. I'll use the time to brush up on investment theory and derivatives and maybe even get in a little weight training.
Beats a year in a cubicle doing tech support on the phone for $8/hr.
Keep me posted!!!