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SCO.com Defaced
A whole slew of readers wrote:"According to an Image on the SCO website they own all our code and we shall pay them all our money. (found at Heise online (german IT news). " Yes, I'm sure this will help the whole legal case; defacement has always been such a valued piece of input in court *cough*.
... but at least it was tastefully done.
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
Changing only one image and in a way that it looks like it absolutely belongs...
all I can say is that all you other ankle-biters out there need to learn from this....
posting defacings that look like viagra adds and filled with shouts and greetZ only makes you look like a very silly child with only script-kiddie skillz.
(oh and spelling that way makes you simply look like a wanna-be)
congrats to whoever did it. they needed to make it a little more discreet to see if it would have stayed there for a week or more...
Anyone looked at what's begin written down in the background of the image? from what you can read: h?cke? by rea??oc( so.. hacked by realloc( also notice the photoshop smear spots near the arms of the woman in the background.
I have often wondered, to myself, what if this is wrong sinking to their level? Someone defaces their site and its seen as a bad reflection on the linux communitys.
But when it comes down to it, this is not, even remotely close to what SCO are doing! SCO are thieves. Scum. They are wishing to use the legal syste, to gain and ownership and control and misuse the code of thousands of programmers, to scum off them and make profit on what is not theirs, they wish to lie and cheat and deprive the real workers and people playing by the rules of the benefits of their work, and they send letters to senators saying to make open source and linux and GPL unconstitutional??? This is not just a case of a minor disagreement between people about code this is SCO a thieving company wishing to exploit the works already done by so many people. Lying, theft, unconsciounable deceipt and exploitation
I think some graphics replaced on their website is really minor considering the filthy actions they are trying to do!!!. Really!!!
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Don't take SCO's actions so personally.
I think some graphics replaced on their website is really minor considering the filthy actions they are trying to do!!!
You're right, but all that's besides the point:
1. This doesn't hurt SCO, or those behind SCO, in any way at all.
2. It doesn't help Linux, or those involved in Linux, in any way at all.
3. It does harm the image of Linux users.
4. It's illegal. Yeah, they're doing worse illegal stuff, so what? Vigilante justice is not the answer.
Would be funny except their website appears to be running Linux.
You making the assumption that it was defaced by someone outside of SCO. They have been keeping their mouth shut lately, so what better way to stir up some noise but to deface the website themselves?
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
Well, it can't look good when the manufacturer of a commercial server operating system gets 0wned.
The long-term negative effects this will have on the Linux community's image and the loathing I have for vandals outweighs the short-term humor of the gag.