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SCO.com Defaced

Posted by Hemos on from the stop-submitting-this dept.

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*.

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  1. strings on the graphic by catalax · · Score: 4, Interesting


    $ strings webinar_land2-1.jpg | head -n 3
    JFIF
    Ducky
    Adobe

    1. Re:strings on the graphic by Naikrovek · · Score: 5, Interesting

      did anyone else notice what she was writing?

      "hacked by realloc(" and she's drawing the ")"

  2. Another article by osvejda · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Article on NewsForge and screenshot.

  3. look at the blackboard in the background by Leonig+Mig · · Score: 5, Interesting

    the woman has written "hacked by reallock" ?? the name is slightly obscured.

    --
    i'm trying to give up sigs.
    1. Re:look at the blackboard in the background by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Efnet: /whois realloc
      -!- realloc [nobody@nightwish.wideopenbsd.org]
      -!- ircname : h4h4@sco
      -!- channels : @#sco
      -!- server : irc.nac.net [I have a poisonous friend]
      -!- End of WHOIS

    2. Re:look at the blackboard in the background by TheSurfer · · Score: 5, Interesting
      $ resolveip nightwish.wideopenbsd.org
      IP address of nightwish.wideopenbsd.org is 194.145.249.5
      $ whois 194.145.249.5 | egrep '(org|address)'
      org: ORG-pI10-RIPE
      organisation: ORG-pI10-RIPE
      org-name: prq Inet
      org-type: NON-REGISTRY
      address: Box 1206
      address: SE 11479 Stockholm
      address: Sweden
      address: prq Inet
      FTI: these are the same guys that manage thepiratebay.org, the biggest Swedish/European BitTorrent tracker.
  4. Re:It may be defacement... by Malc · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Indeed. Perhaps it was orchestrated by SCO themselves. Something from their marketing department as an awareness campaign to push up their share price so that the execs can keep making money selling them. Oh it's great being on /.: tin foil hats are so de rigeur!

  5. Suspicious timing by Animats · · Score: 4, Interesting
    It's interesting that SCO managed to get press releases out on this in the middle of the night over the Thanksgiving weekend.

    SCO has a November 30 filing deadline in the IBM case, on the IBM counterclaims. That's tomorrow. SCO has to reply to IBM's "You violated the GPL and you can't use IBM's code in Linux any more" counterclaim. This is the day SCO has to provide legal arguments to back up their "the GPL is unconstitutional/illegal/irrelevant" claim. Which they're not going to be able to do successfully. That's not the news SCO wants heavily publicized.

    So the timing here is suspiciously convenient for SCO.

    Inside job?