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Internet Meltdown Predicted for Tomorrow
Kobalt writes "A few news services are reporting that Russian computer expert, Aleksandr Gostev from Kaspersky Labs, has predicted that a large chunk of the Internet will be shut down tomorrow by cyber terrorists."
as long as google dosen't go down we can live on the caches!!!!!
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You mean I might actually get to go outside and go to the beach and soak up a few rays??? Jeez what a horrid loss....
Could they be a bit clearer on which TZ they're basing the attack? For me, it's already "tomorrow" in Japan.
Otherwise, what am I going to do all day tomorrow at work!
I smell the work of the GOP trying to get the geek vote.
Drill baby drill - on Mars
How will I be so productive at work ?
oh... wait..
My blog
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I predict that tomorrow this prediction will be useless and untrue. Signed, the not so AC nobody
Fourty-two!
We're going to slashdot the entire internet?
Chris Knight is my hero.
What a load of 1t08vwnw8t NO CARRIER
NO! don't let them anywhere NEAR the internet's power switch!
wget -m http://*
Describing theinquirer.net as a 'news service.'
> Is it someone who makes threats using electronic media?
no thats the RIAA isn't it?
---- There are 10 types of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that don't
Productivity tomorrow is expected to rise to levels not seen since the 1980's.
Department of Homeland Security says that we're at code yellow "Significant risk of terrorist attack". This confirms the story!
But I can predict with 100% certainty that my eyes will meltdown in their sockets if they don't change the IT section color scheme soon.
A coordinated online strike against Internet servers by terrorists, dubbed "electronic jihad," may or may not strike this week, security experts said.
Well, I may or may not be concerned then.
Moo.
e-had - a purely electronic holy war
i-had - much like an e-had, but it's portable
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
I was supposed to do a major network re-configuration tomorrow, damn, now I'll get the blame for bringing down the whole internet!
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
They listen to the 'chatter.'
Spoiler Alert: It starts off pretty cool, but really drags in the middle. The ending is horrible.
I'm wondering myself what an "Internet Meltdown" looks like.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Its that jackass that won't get off the mic in counter-strike, unreal tournament, and any other game in which they can spam endless chatter without a chance of retribution.
Slashdot: Where anecdotes and generalizations can be freely substituted for facts, logic, or intelligence
I guess I'll have to stay up extra late tonight then in order to finish downloading the entire Internet onto my laptop...
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
Doesn't XP Service Pack 2 finally make its way onto Windows Auto-update tomorrow?
Don't Crease the Weasel!
Thanks in advance!
Well, i was (sort of) with you until you decided to sign off with the incredibly thoughtful and insightful "Fucking Lame...". After that, i just decided you were an idiot and flushed anything that might've been useful in your post from my brain.
Maybe the passengers upset with the terrorists' plans to crash them into the Internet.
Also, why tomorrow?
Obviously it's because August 26 is Macaulay Culkin's birthday. Everyone knows terrorists are big fans of the Home Alone movies, though not the third one.
It's what happens if you put your swimsuit in the dryer for too long on high heat.
(S(SKK)(SKK))(S(SKK)(SKK))
If the Internet survives, then you can use the freeze-dried strawberries for dacquiris and margaritas.
The sky, she is falling! The sky, she is falling!
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
>one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.
If a fire fighter fights fires, and a crime fighter fights crime, what is a "freedom fighter"?
Do we get last post pissing contests now as well? :)
Yeah. A cyber terrorist is some teenage geek that messages you all the time with "ASL? R U HORNY?" so much and so often that you can't get anything done.
People say I'm crazy, I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes...
Sounds like I should put in for a vacation day, before the boss sees this. ;)
"Sometimes a man's gotta do what a woman wouldn't consider." - Red Green
slash-had - A holy war in a painful dark khaki color scheme.
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Fans? I thought those movies were an early attack!
As Reagan said; one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.
I always mess that one up. I thought he said "one mans terrorist is another mans customer."
If that's the case, I'm setting up a swinging paint can trap on my firewall now.
/sarcasm
I still have 300lbs of duct tape and saran wrap laying around from the last REAL threat.
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Donald Rumsfeld seems to fit into your progression.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
No, that is "someone who makes threats 'at' electronic media."
I mean.. if /. gets taken down by this... I can get more work done finally! ;)
You could always lock yourself out.
I have developed a program to download Google to my hard disk. I have two (yes, two) ISDN lines, so I'll be fine to support the web for a week or so.
Join the Free Software Foundation
Oh come on man! Duct tape and Saran Wrap are so last year's technology. You need to upgrade to one of these things now:
Terrorist proof bed
KFG
Since about midnight last night, Earthlink appears to be ahead of this "internet meltdown" curve. Their DSL service has been slow when it's working at all.
What a service provider!
Maybe he is referring to the Windows Update release of XP SP2?
a man, a plan, a canal, panama
I bet everything is all tied into the second gunman on the grassy knoll. Or was that a second spitter on the grassy knoll?
Anyway, I think all of our answers lie in Area 51. Anyone want to join me in Roswell, New Mexico? I'm flying down there tonight, so I can be on-site for the Internet Meltdown.
Possible some middle management, who live in fear their lack of knowledge will be discovered.
When will Windows be ready for the desktop?
If you lined up all of the economists in the world, you still wouldn't reach a conclusion.
and it need not be limited to five.
A goal is a dream with a deadline
In order to hinder any preventative measures, I predict that cyber-terrorists, in conjunction with conventional terrorists and the Russain mafia may or may not lunch a concerted campaign of assasination on security analysts.
This may or may not go un-noticed by the rest of us.
Screw the net! I spend all my time on teh intarweb!
Damn, quick someone set up old style dial up bbs :-)
Someone archive all the pr0n, credit card numbers, serial numbers, war3z, dvds, mp3s, AAC, Linux (SCO variant not to be included) on the net on it.
Someone set up a paypal account for donations to help keep it up. wait n/m PayPal will be gone too....
NO!!!!!
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int main (void) {
My strategy will consist of a different approach:
1) Do absolutely nothing.
2) If anything happens tomorrow pull the plug on the DSL router we use for Internet access.
3) Plug the router back in after a few hours.
4) Repeat step 1.
I was so very sad when that happened. It was rather tragic.
Germans, Algerians, Vietnamese ....
Infuriate left and right
They made a THIRD one?! Jesus, no wonder they hate us.
Haida Manga
really that bad?
from eweek: here:
And in July, DoubleClick Inc.'s DNS (domain name system) was attacked and unable to serve ads for a similar time frame.
oh, boo-hoo people can't get their poor little ads...
Here we go again!
A story on /. that doesn't require you to RTFA! I think the headline on this site contained almost as much information as the linked stories did.
With the AK, wouldn't you, technically, be playing a FPS, but with better graphics and sound?
Careful, you're playing hardcore mode.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
Shhh, you might reveal the pointlessness of the Department of Homeland Security!
We HAVE to have the term terrorist, we aren't allowed to call everyone who disagrees with us "nazi" anymore.
And if you don't agree, that's because you are a friggin terro-nazi.
Doesn't this happen every so many years, when they search for old, forgotten computers on the internet? I get an email about this fairly often telling me to disconnect for a day so I don't get zapped...
I like the Internet Storm Center's comment about this "news". From today's
diary:
"The ISC would like to go out on a limb and predict that the Internet will not vaporize into a cloud of nothingness this Thursday, but if it does, it's been our pleasure to help stave off its inevitable annihilation this long."
---- join dshield.org Distributed Intrusion Detec
thanks for the link to brutessh2. I scanned the password list and didn't see my root password so I added my password to the list. thanks again!
oh wait...
------ How can making people laugh lead to bad karma?
Now I might make use of that Y2K shelter I built before the last advertised armageddon. I will remain sheltered and safe as our countries digital infrastructure is brought to its knees, causing widespread havoc and depriving returned college students of their Kazaa fix. I've been dying to break into the Tang and Deviled Ham stockpiles.
"Don't waste your time or time will waste you" -MUSE
It's just the stupid XP SP2 upgrade through Windows Auto Update. How somebody could confuse a Windows update with cyber terrorism is beyond me!
I may be off my rocker here, but...
I know what MD5 hashing is...What the hell is "Shah 0", discussed in the eWeek article? Does this mean that Iran is giving us encryption now? It must not be very good, if it's in danger of being cracked.
Thoroughly cracked myself...
Tim
Behold, the power of fleas...
Now watch for a dupe of this story TOMORROW!
Excuse me, I spilled coffee all over myself laughing. Hmm- read our web site, download our trojan, which will ENABLE US to conduct our 'predicted attack' !!!
Someone has found This....
No DON'T push that button...
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
If he's right, it's not like your comments will be modded up anyways.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
Someone who downs the internet should be called something else like cyber hemorroids. After all they wouldn't generate terror. They would simply generate a major pain in the ass.
A *RUSSIAN* scientist spreading homeland security propaganda for an *AMERICAN* political party. You really put a lot of thought into that assertion, didn't you?
One word: outsourcing.
Given a choice between free speech and free beer, most people will take the beer.
I can get down.
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Can I stop the intarweb? For justice?
In A.D. 2004
War was Continuing.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the internet crash.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
Osama: How are you gentlemen !!
Osama: All your DNS servers are belong to us.
Osama: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
Osama: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Osama: Ha Ha Ha Ha
Operator: Captain '!!'*
Captain: Take off every 'browser'!!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'browser'.
Captain: For great justice.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
No, no, you're thinking of the American Cancer Association.
Assume I was drunk when I posted this.
Sounds to me like someone's had a bit too much vodka. Put the bottle down, Boris!
Must-not-watch TV!
a recent e-mail i got asking me to change our router passwords all to admin/admin. It may have been a mistake for me to do that now that I think about it :(
Confucius say: "Man who write on slashdot about possibility of getting lucky, reduces chances to next to nothing"
Internet meltdown will happen, but not because of attack...
Microsoft is releasing SP2 (download size from 100 MB to 260 MB) via Automatic Update to 300 million computers running Windows XP. Tommorow Windows users will start to download this huge service pack and internet will be slow - that's all.
Apparently the terrorists found this website, and will be visiting it tomorrow:
It's Al Gore's internet. Did anyone ask him if this was a planned outage?
Chip H.
They've already struck. Their insidious plan is to blind people with horrible web page colors. Ah my eyes! I'm hit! Man down, man down!
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch.
Bid now for anything ending tomorrow that still has a low price today, the last-minute squad won't be able to grab it tomorrow :P
...would your daughter happen to be 18 and single?
If not, I expect to receive a notice when one or the other becomes true (I'm not picky).
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Before the invention of eruptions, lava had to be carried down the mountain by hand and thrown on sleeping villagers.