Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the no-surprise-there dept.
quakeslut writes "It's Feb. 1st everyone... and all of you who have been reading Slashdot know that today MyDoom.A begins it's attack... according to Reuters, SCO has already been hit hard. Stay tuned for Tuesday when MyDoom.B hits Microsoft..."
I wish it wouldn't happen. This virus is painting the Linux community as a bunch of petulant adolescents - regardless of who's doing it.
Yeah! Like that is sooo untrue. Next they are going to be saying that the Linux community is a bunch of overweight hippies who never get any exercise and live off a diet of potatoe chips and caffine. There is not the slightest evidence to back those claims.
Besides the guy can not be an OSS guy, other wise he would not have only released his code on the closed proprietary Windows platform.
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Re:Helps SCO and Microsoft
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tasinet
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no no no i dont think so....
it just makes clear that they are a hated lot.
Worms like this are the power of the people, and I for one salute the guy who wrote this:
a] attacks ugly mfckrs like sco and mcr$ft
b] terminates at 1 march so it doesn't linger forever.
c] payload is only in the form of [1] bandwidth consumption and [2] restricting certain websites.
I mean, come on, it coulda burned their motherboards up instead..
just doing my part
by
warpSpeed
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while [ 1 = 1 ]
do
lynx --dump http://www.sco.com/ 2>&1 >/dev/null
done &
Geeks don't know jack
by
DragonMagic
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Sorry, but it still amazes me how even/. does not seem to apply simple spellchecks.
Separate the contraction to see whether you're using the proper term.
It's Feb. 1st everyone... and all of you who have been reading Slashdot know that today MyDoom.A begins it's attack...
It is February 1st everyone -- check, good
and all of you who have been reading Slashdot know that today MyDoom.A begins it is attack -- doesn't check, not good
I don't expect anally-perfect grammar, but at least its/it's should have that check done, either by the submitter or the editor posting the story.
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Re:SCO move to BSD
by
minkwe
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According to this article They made a big mistake.
"
OpenBSD 3.4 was a real stinker in these tests. The installation routine sucks, the disk performance sucks, the kernel was unstable, and in the network scalability department it was even outperformed by it's father, NetBSD... If you are using OpenBSD, you should move away now.
"
-- "Fighting terrorists with millitary might is like killing a mosquitor on your Dad's forehead with a rifle."
I find this particularly disturbing
by
huh69
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· Score: 1, Flamebait
All this does is make the open-source community look like a bunch of whinebabies. People with techincal superiority, using that power against SCO instead of waiting to see how things turn out in court.
It doesn't matter that 99.9% of the open-source community is not malicious like this. The.1% of the people are the ones that are doing the talking when doing something like this. All this does is hurt the cause that Linus, the OSI, the FSF, and all the linux geeks have been working so hard to defend.
I don't condone what Darl and SCO are trying to do, but I don't condone people doing this sort of thing either. "Hackers" (as opposed to "crackers") everywhere look bad when this happens, and ultimately confirm the malicious intent that most peope believe "hackers" to have.
This is a sad day for Linux and opensource if you ask me:(.
Re:I find this particularly disturbing
by
cpuenvy
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People with techincal superiority, using that power against SCO instead of waiting to see how things turn out in court.
What the hell are you talking about? You obviously get your information from the same place SCO gets theirs, since your accusations are based on mindless drivel. The fact is, my disturbed little friend, that nobody knows who is responsible. If you happen to know who is, claim the "reward", or shut up.
I do agree with you in one aspect of your FUD, it is a sad day for Linux and opensource. Knowing that mindless assholes like yourself make us all look bad... That part of your statement holds true.
Remember, it is FUD like you just spread in your post that started all this bullshit in the first place. People like you just feed the fire.
In my opinion, my community has been on the defensive for too long now, fending off the fools from SCO. At this point, I find it amusing that someone used flaws in Microsoft and it's users, to make these bastards lose the ability to conduct whatever pitiful business it does these days. So to SCO, HAHAHAHA! Who really cares? Everyone is laughing at SCO today, including me.
I think you owe us all an apology.
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Funny, i thought the linux community DOES consist of a bunch of overweight hippies who never get any excercise and live off a diet of potato chips and caffiene.
At any rate the moderators today don't seem to be able to tell the difference between sarcasm and a flame.
Its all that caffiene that does it.
Whoever wrote the virus is like one those EarthFirst! loonies who go arround spiking trees with steel pins to kill anyone who tries to chop down the tree with a chainsaw. Its just a person on a personal ego trip who does not care what their actions do to the reputation of the movement.
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Yeah! Like that is sooo untrue. Next they are going to be saying that the Linux community is a bunch of overweight hippies who never get any exercise and live off a diet of potatoe chips and caffine. There is not the slightest evidence to back those claims.
Besides the guy can not be an OSS guy, other wise he would not have only released his code on the closed proprietary Windows platform.
Looking for an Information Security student project suggestion?
Try http://dotcrimeManifesto.com/
no no no i dont think so.... it just makes clear that they are a hated lot. Worms like this are the power of the people, and I for one salute the guy who wrote this: a] attacks ugly mfckrs like sco and mcr$ft b] terminates at 1 march so it doesn't linger forever. c] payload is only in the form of [1] bandwidth consumption and [2] restricting certain websites. I mean, come on, it coulda burned their motherboards up instead..
A refreshingly different Point of view.
I think you mean "potato".
Your name isn't Dan Quayle is it?
do
lynx --dump http://www.sco.com/ 2>&1 >
done &
Sorry, but it still amazes me how even /. does not seem to apply simple spellchecks.
Separate the contraction to see whether you're using the proper term.
It's Feb. 1st everyone... and all of you who have been reading Slashdot know that today MyDoom.A begins it's attack...
It is February 1st everyone -- check, good
and all of you who have been reading Slashdot know that today MyDoom.A begins it is attack -- doesn't check, not good
I don't expect anally-perfect grammar, but at least its/it's should have that check done, either by the submitter or the editor posting the story.
Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different. -- Earl of Chesterfield
"Fighting terrorists with millitary might is like killing a mosquitor on your Dad's forehead with a rifle."
All this does is make the open-source community look like a bunch of whinebabies. People with techincal superiority, using that power against SCO instead of waiting to see how things turn out in court.
.1% of the people are the ones that are doing the talking when doing something like this. All this does is hurt the cause that Linus, the OSI, the FSF, and all the linux geeks have been working so hard to defend.
:(.
It doesn't matter that 99.9% of the open-source community is not malicious like this. The
I don't condone what Darl and SCO are trying to do, but I don't condone people doing this sort of thing either. "Hackers" (as opposed to "crackers") everywhere look bad when this happens, and ultimately confirm the malicious intent that most peope believe "hackers" to have.
This is a sad day for Linux and opensource if you ask me
At any rate the moderators today don't seem to be able to tell the difference between sarcasm and a flame.
Its all that caffiene that does it.
Whoever wrote the virus is like one those EarthFirst! loonies who go arround spiking trees with steel pins to kill anyone who tries to chop down the tree with a chainsaw. Its just a person on a personal ego trip who does not care what their actions do to the reputation of the movement.
Looking for an Information Security student project suggestion?
Try http://dotcrimeManifesto.com/