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Netcraft Jokes About SCO's Virus Fears
Elektroschock writes: "Through the media SCO Group sent the message that a virus writer that targets its website would be a Linux enthusiast. Netcraft has its own funny remarks in a dogfood article." Some of you might get a cackle out of the third solution.
I for one welcome our new "previously unknown Linux Thought Leader" overlord!
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. - Albert Einstein
...and that makes me wonder if the editor only read that far. ;)
;) )
"Entire set of infected Windows machines is reached and either comes up running Debian or crashes stone dead trying. No denial of service attack occurs. SCO sends licence fee demands to owners of all the previously infected windows machines. They happily pay up and SCO splits the proceeds with Slashdot readers."
(And yes, I read the whole thing.
libertarianswag.com
Consequences: SCO Executives buy a small business shared hosting account at Yahoo, noting that it runs on FreeBSD, not Linux, and point www.sco.com at the new account.
Makes sense, Unixware and FreeBSD have much in common, according to Netcraft. Can you guess what they have in common?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
From the article: Spend Saturday soaking up the totally awesome graphics on the Stealth bomber flight simulators, and then obliterate most of Utah, sco.com name servers and all, on Sunday morning hours before the DDoS is due to hit Slashdot. SCO Execs still laughing themselves helpless about the /. Effect when the bomb hits.
:-)
Hey now, not everybody in Utah is a SCO exec or a polygamyist. I suppose this is the toll that association takes however, even if that association is geographic as opposed to ideological, political or religious. Believe it or not, there are good things to come out of Utah, such as much of the technology responsible for computer graphics, some kickin' genetics research, some of the best skiing in the world, good beer, and last but not least, is the home of computational molecular phenotyping.
Visit Jonesblog and say hello.
Maybe the person who wrote the virus is trying to tackle the real virus - SCO's lawsuits.
Seriously, SCO's DOSing every Linux user's stress level...
If they posted a slashdot story for every joke made about SCO, well, something!!
Anyway, I'll submit my 50 SCO jokes as stories. I didn't know there was such a shortage.
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus
From the article: "SCO Execs point www.sco.com at the loopback address 127.0.0.1, end lawsuits, dismiss lawyers, and invest remaining corporate cash reserves in call options in Dell & Microsoft stock."
Since when do SCO and Verisign share corporate strategy for "net presence management?" Now that's synergy in action!
How many roads must a man walk down? 42.
(And yes, I read the whole thing. ;) )
;)
Are you sure you read this one?
Solution 5: SCO Execs point www.sco.com at the loopback address 127.0.0.1, end lawsuits, dismiss lawyers, and invest remaining corporate cash reserves in call options in Dell & Microsoft stock.
The IT section color scheme sucks.
Looking at their uptime stats, a DDoS wouldn't really make much difference.
Why not just put multiple A records on the sco domain, as to spread the load across multiple servers. Besides, there will be enough traffic to take down many, many sites. Here's a short list, in order of importance...
c omn ux.com
kernel.org (and its mirrors)
groklaw.net
ibm.com
redhat.com
suse.
novell.com
sourceforge.net
slashdot.org
li
apple.com
sco.org (When we're finished, we'll be all you can see)
I thought Netcraft kept tabs on what webservers were used on the Internet? But now they are a news site taking sides in the SCO vs Linux argument?
What happened?
Fact: *Santa Cruz Operations is dying.
The whole front page of SCO's website is dedictated to the virus. If you were running SCO you wouldn't have this problem, so why is it freatured on their website? Probably just fodder for the next lawsuit is my guess.
J.
Some cats swing, and others don't. Don't you be the kind that won't.
Congratulations to Mike Peterjohn.
Who in btw is a founder and one of the Netcraft executives. So dunno about the dogfood. I wish other company CTOs could post dogfood like that.
Baker's Law: Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it
http://www.sigsegv.cx/
... the entire world starts to DDOS you, to see if an expected DDOS is taking place yet [huge grin :-] ... A company that monitors uptime starts a deathwatch on your site ... That same company publically ridicules you on their homepage :-)
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
PING www.sco.com (216.250.128.12) 56(84) bytes of data.
--- www.sco.com ping statistics ---
34 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 33048ms
Well, the bomb on Utah? Aren't they all Christians in Utah? So I leave it to the Lord to punish SCO. Eternal doom proposed.
I asked him his thoughts about SCO's foolish crusade, and he said, "Hey, we would have been out of business in December if they didn't."
So I guess Solution Number 1 may be plausible for fiscal reasons also.
Hopefully people who use Linux won't be denegrated as mere Fans, Fanatics or Enthusiasts for too much longer, as Macintosh users have been for years, now that the big boys are putting out ads backing the "OS that could".
This morning I saw my first Linux ad on TV, sponsored by IBM. The theme, a young child showing up all over the World and a voiceover saying something to the effect of "the child is growing up".
The combination of ads promoting Linux, and the $250,00 bounties offered by those who would prefer it dead and buried, just might finally be opening the public's eyes to what's going on in Lindon and Redmond these days!
Search for: Liars And Thieves *** Sorry, but search returned no results. Try to compose less restrictive search query or check spelling. *** Obviously their search engine is already DDOS'd
I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
Linux geeks reveal that they've secretly controlled satellites in order to build a "Death Star" out of existing space debris. (you think the hubble is busted? Ha! We just borrowed some parts 'cause we needed some lenses and a gyroscope).
This "Death Star" goes Independence Day on SCO Land with pinpoint accuracy -- McBride castrated before being zapped like an ant under a magnifying lens.
Sir Gates and the Knights of the Old Republicans wage war against Geekdom because of this weapon of mass destruction. They device a plan to send a Mac to the death star in order to introduce a virus.
Upon pitching the idea to Steve Jobs, the poor man laughs himself to death, leaving Gates and Ballmer (in their Matrix outfits) to have their tablet PC plugged into the Linux-powered "Laser" via Samba.
The XP Tablet-PC edition spreads like a cancer through the ext3 filesystem resulting in many "I Told You So" comments by Reiser.
Linus, finally sick of all these events, sheds his impartial nature and embraces his dark side. Finally teaches everything he knows to that bleach-blonde IBM Commercial kid and dubs him Darth Tux. Geeks around the world cede their control of the Death Star to Darth Tux, who shoots down both Washingtons and proceeds to carve his face onto Mt. Rushmore.
Darth Tux declared supreme leader, quoted as saying "Choice is good...as long as you choose Linux" Proceeds to create his own distro -- Slim Shady Linux.
Geeks install distro, wave their hands skyward in apathy, and enjoy the new era of computing.
...reminds me of the old "ICMP REDIRECT to 127.0.0.1" trick.
Fascinating that they (=Netcraft) think that Slashdot is doing more damage to SCO than what Groklaw did.
bash$
As I pointed out on freebsd-chat (google link since the FreeBSD archives are broken right now), this DDoS attack could be handled relatively easily.
The attacking machines are easily recognizable: They issue distinctive[ly minimalist] HTTP requests. It is therefore easy to build a list of "evil" source IP addresses.
Given these IP addresses, all you have to do is filter those packets and send them to a LaBrea tarpit. Each connection hangs indefinitely at a very low packet rate: If I did my arithmetic right, the expected half a million machines would only require 85 Mbps of bandwidth.
Now, that's hardly a trivial amount, but it shouldn't be too hard for a company SCO's size to buy that sort of capacity. Defending against this attack might cost $100K, but that's still less than the $250K they've already offered as a bounty for catching the worm author.
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
http://www.sco.com/mydoom/
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What long-term steps should I take to protect against future viruses?
3. Do not download any documents or programs from any Website that you do not know to be reputable
This is just their way of stopping people finding what GPL stuff they're still giving away, isn't it?
I'm scared of numbers that can't be written as a fraction. It's an irrational fear.
Mormons, actually. It's like Christ++.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. --Edmund Burke
Object-Oriented Religion?
This just in:
"D'Aloisio Marc observed some things about the DoS attack, and raised some preliminary questions:
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Has anyone seen the DOS against SCO actually happen?
I have the new critter in a test environment where we conducted a
preliminary and rudimentary functionality and threat analysis and the
only activity I can get it to perform related to www.sco.com is to
resolve the name. In fact, it seems very unhappy if it cannot resolve
www.sco.com. Once it can, it happily scans local files for anything
that can be construed (very loosely) as a domain and tries to resolve
mail servers based on these. In fact, right now it's trying to resolve
'mx.makewin.rsp'. "Makewin.rsp' is a file referenced in the help files
of my DigitalMars C++ compiler on a test machine, so it's not a very
smart worm. The worm also seems to like to increment the third octet of
the host IP by one and syn to port 25 of that address over and over and
over... I have played with the date, etc, but still no activity directed
toward www.sco.com. It did die after 12 February, but gladly
resurrected when the date was set back prior to that. "
From: http://www.math.org.il/newworm-digest1.txt
He-he. Just kidding.
Hey, wait?! WTF? What's this? OMFG! ICBIFT...
Solution 3 recommends redirecting the traffic to 'somone you don't like.' I'm not sure whether I should admit to this but I think you all will find it interesting.
On Tursday afternoon somone began trying to hack into an MS SQL Server that my company runs. They weren't able to get in, but their brute force method of attemting to access the 'sa' account estentially caused a DoS on the application. We got the guys IP address but his ISP doesn't seem very interested in helping out.
It just so happens that we KNOW that a number of users inside our network have contracted MyDOOM. It also just so happens that we have our own internal DNS servers. Jokingly, we mentioned to our Network Admin that he should redirect all the SCO traffic to this IP. You could see a little glimmer in his eye at the suggestion and he paused for a moment and said that was a very interesting idea and that he might just do that...
Anyway, glad to see that we're not the only ones with the idea.
The document you're looking for is here. But they're people too, and so they have an opinion of their own. Now they felt like letting the rest of the net know what their opinion on this matter is.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Oh yeah. Back in the old days they used to have these whacky ideas about inheritance. It wasn't uncommon for children to have many parents.
"The words of the prophets are written on the Slashdot walls."
Mormons, actually.
Wonder why my brain edited out the second m there for a moment...
Seemed reasonable too...
...link so SCO again? This is getting fishy :)
So, if Christ is the Highest, wouldn't Christ++ wrap around (2's complement) to the lowest possible, meaning the devil? No wonder SCO is located there...
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
I hear that if you're from the island of Java, you can only have one parent.
Vegetarians, beware of the following statement:
;)), but at any rate at a Brazilian Grill, the name of which is nearly at hand, but oh, well. ("Rodizio Grill"?)
...
... it's hard to reconcile the idea of vegetarianism (the not eating animals part at least) with the tastiness of, well, ex-animals.
One of the most memorable meals I've ever had (and in a good way, not in the "... and then the waiter was stabbed by the Mob guys!" way) was a few years ago in Utah, I think in Provo (well, somewhere in the Provo / Park City / Salt Lake City triangle, anyhow
a) the good was delicious, and it was not heavy on the spinach n' cucumber side of things. Beef, chicken, pork, rattlesnake sausage
b) Good system, a sort of reverse buffet. Each table has a red / green wooden token, a traffic signal for the wait staff, who are bringing around food on platters. Red-side-up means "We're still dangerously full," green-side-up means "Please bring us more, we have discovered a leak and it needs to be plugged with, among other things, quail eggs."
I know that there are now lots of these Brazilian grills around the country. If only there was a good source of vat-meat
As impressive as the food, though, is the system which prevents the table-service game of trying to make eye contact with waiters etc. It's a more elegant solution than my long-contemplated idea which would be to have a sort of steward/ess light over the tables in restaurants. The wooden token is simple, uses red/green cues which (non-colorblind) people are used to. (Though the semantics are also reversable; it would be as sensible to say "red means Stop to the waiter, green means the waiter can pass you by.") I think there was a little guide on the table.
The rest of the state, perhaps, but SLC and Park City do not lack for excellent food, casual to quite formal.
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
Through the media SCO Group sent the message that a virus writer that targets its website would be a Linux enthusiast.
Because the SCO Group has Linux as their target, sinking to lower levels for each attack they do, why should it be news or strange that some Linux user would do so as well? SCO has chosen to fight a dirty battle.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
You can see it because it actually happens. I work a tier 1 helpdesk for a top 20 university. You'd think that the people here would be smarter then your average person simply because of the strict admissions requirements. However, I've had no fewer then four cases in the past four months where someone has bought a new machine because they're old box was running slowly due to spyware/adware. They'll bring the old machine in and either try to sell it or have us clean it up for a gift to a relative or something similar.
And those are just four where I happen to have found out about them. I can't imagine all the cases where I don't find out...
I work in tech support for one of the major computer manufacturers.
I've had people call up claiming that their brand new computer came with the Blaster worm.
It'd be nice if the sales people had enough sense to give out a flyer with instructions on how to enable the Windows XP firewall and download the patch, but I probably expect too much.
Solution 2: Take www.sco.com out of the DNS.
Consequences: Everyone has a quiet weekend. SCO Execs drink Budweiser and watch the Superbowl. Global media considers that the virus author "has won". Anti-virus company Execs do not return journalists' calls on "What was all that fuss?"
The SCO execs are all Mormon I thought, they'll have to settle for a dixie cup of lemonade, that is if they're not at church.
It's true no man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a good raft.
Object-Oriented Religion?
Isn't that referred to as 'idolatry'?
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