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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. Nothing for you to see here. Please move along by CmdrGravy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Very relevant for a change

    1. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along by Saven+Marek · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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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    2. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

    3. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: 4, Insightful
      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.

      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?

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    4. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along by eric_brissette · · Score: 5, Funny

      C'mon, you know deep down inside you think it's funny.

    5. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along by wo1verin3 · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's a good point, if it wasn't an inside job, wouldn't they have fixed it already?

      Can you imagine the SCO office right now?

      [lawyer 1] How do we change graphics on our that there webpage thing?
      [lawyer 2] graphics?
      [lawyer 1] the picture thingy
      [lawyer 2] uh....
      [lawyer 1] ok maybe we should have kept the IT dept... someone send an e-mail to India asking how please?

    6. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along by hendridm · · Score: 5, Insightful
      1. This doesn't hurt SCO, or those behind SCO, in any way at all.

      Well, it can't look good when the manufacturer of a commercial server operating system gets 0wned.

    7. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along by Kombat · · Score: 5, Funny

      Defacing SCO's site doesn't do any damage to SCO, in fact the opposite because they can now cast "The Linux" community in a negative light.

      It obviously was not a member of the Linux community, a fact which can be easily proven. The defaced image contains absolutely zero typos. Clearly, it was an inside job.

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    8. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along by LWATCDR · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think Sco did it themselves just like the rigged the elections for Bush and are hidding that UFO they found from us. I mean think about it grep, sed, yacc, these have got to be from another planet.
      Yea it was totaly freanking usless and was actually hurtful to Linux to do anything to SCOs website.

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    9. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along by Rimbo · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

  2. It may be defacement... by Anita+Coney · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... but at least it was tastefully done.

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    1. 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!

  3. hehe by maharg · · Score: 4, Funny

    .. but they *do* own all your code ~~~

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    $ strings FTP.EXE | grep Copyright
    @(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
  4. See it before it goes away! by mrpuffypants · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.tomservo.net/etc/sco_defaced.jpg

    1. Re:See it before it goes away! by JanusFury · · Score: 5, Funny

      And another one, as seen from Telnet in Windows XP:

      C:\>telnet www.sco.com 80
      GET /images/landing_pages_new/webinar_land2-1.jpg
      JFIF d d Ducky Adobe d ä

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      using namespace slashdot;
      troll::post();
  5. Screenshot Mirror by nuxx · · Score: 4, Informative

    In case SCO ever gets around to fixing their site, a screenshot I took of the affected site is available here.

    1. Re:Screenshot Mirror by jai0 · · Score: 5, Informative

      did you notice the "hacked by realloc" in the image?? the guy seems to write that..

    2. Re:Screenshot Mirror by archen · · Score: 5, Funny

      Heh, only on slashdot would people note a hackers name in the background of a defaced website, and totally overlook a chick in a picture.

    3. Re:Screenshot Mirror by feargal · · Score: 4, Funny

      Swine.

      I just had to go back and look at the photo. You're right, there *is* a woman in the picture, all I'd noticed before was the tag...

      I feel so pathetic, and I hate you for pointing it out.

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      "A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"
  6. Decent by chaceboi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nice of him not to use the AYCABTU line.

  7. Bad hacker! Bad! by erlando · · Score: 5, Funny

    Though you have to admire the subtlety..

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  8. Now if it said... by chipmeister · · Score: 5, Funny

    All your base are belong...

    1. Re:Now if it said... by Young+Master+Ploppy · · Score: 4, Funny

      How about "All your codebase are belong to us" ...? (wince)

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  9. Look on there faces! by Timber_Z · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah what I wouldn't give to see the look on there faces when they relieze this!

    Course since I looked at the image, I am sure now they will try and charge me $699.00.

  10. 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. Re:strings on the graphic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      JFIF means it's in JPEG File Interchange Format.

      Adobe means it was created with an Adobe product.

      Ducky is there because certain Adobe employees are obsessed with rubber ducks.

  11. Twice in one day. by Amiga+Lover · · Score: 5, Informative

    Earlier in the day the lead story was asking for 256billion in payments from Microsoft, as SCO had found UNIX code in all versions of Windows.

    Then that disappeared, but the graphic remained.

    1. Re:Twice in one day. by catalax · · Score: 5, Informative

      here is a screenshot .

  12. I... by sv25 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would have posted a mirror, but the /. affect on the SCO site is much more fun.

  13. it's not surprising they didn't fix it yet... by SilveRo_kun · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not so obvious that the website is defaced =P

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

    Article on NewsForge and screenshot.

  15. Conspiracy theory of the day by surelars · · Score: 5, Funny

    "SCO defaced their own site to discredit the Linux Community". You heard it here first.

  16. Fixed by oexeo · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's been fixed now, it's gone back to the original slogan: "We own all your code, pay us all your money."

  17. 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.

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    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 Renesis · · Score: 5, Informative

      "hacked by realloc()"

      "realloc()" is the guy that did the hack. His tag was on the RedHat page on the SCO site last night before he obviously thought up something more amusing ;)

    3. 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.
  18. that is elegant and leet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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...

  19. 8:35 and it's still there... by Cletus+the+yokel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Conclusion: It's not a defacement. It's their new corperate motto.

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  20. hacked by realloc? by Kman_xth · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  21. Re:Slow aswell... by Ralph+Yarro · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hopefully they wont be as slow when they start doing the linux support we pay them for

    When they start? I'm already getting the full service.

    As a completely unbiased and disinterested observer, I bought a SCO license to see what the fuss was about. Since then NOBODY has sued me for anything, least of all for violating any code SCO might possibly have in the Linux kernel (including any Linux kernels in alternate universes). You can't argue with service like that. I'd recommend it to anyone.

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  22. Openserver? by SlayerofGods · · Score: 5, Funny

    SCO® OpenServer(TM) 5.0.7
    A little too open it would seem.

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    1. Re:Openserver? by avdp · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Would be funny except their website appears to be running Linux.

    2. Re:Openserver? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well of course it is. They own it, after all...

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  23. Still defaced.. by rasty · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looks like the site is still defaced.. maybe they should teach HTML to some lawyers and fix things up :)

  24. Microsoft.com looks OK by nmg196 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..and sco.com is hacked. Therefore IIS is more secure :)

  25. Not a defacement by koi88 · · Score: 4, Funny


    Why do you think this is a defacemant?
    It's their new business model (you insensitive clods)

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  26. Only business by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Hey, it's only business.

    Don't take SCO's actions so personally.

    1. Re:Only business by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's only business when someone burgles your house, too. Most of us still take it personally.

    2. Re:Only business by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The point is it's not business. It's extortion. It's "Those tools in your shed, that computer in your house, those toys your children have are mine. Bring them over here or I'll sue you".

      No matter whether you own the car or not, you end up involved in a legal squabble that costs you time and money.

    3. Re:Only business by itwerx · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's only business when someone burgles your house, too. Most of us still take it personally.

      And I hope the burglar doesn't take it personally when I shoot his dumb ass... :)

    4. Re:Only business by pjt33 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Battery is either hitting people or a device for storing electrical energy. Did you mean barratry?

  27. I just tried... by zenmojodaddy · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...searching the SCO website for the phrase 'litigious bastards'. It returns an error message: #1040 Too Many Connections.

    Made me laugh, anyway.

  28. Announced here yesterday by erikharrison · · Score: 5, Informative

    Did anyone other than me not notice when this was "announced" here on Slashdot in the e17 story?

    Here.

    Seems not to have gotten much attention, but it show's that kiddies can't help but crow, even anonymously.

  29. Why they haven't changed it by oexeo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apparently they haven't changed it yet because their web-development department is having trouble finding the FrontPage shortcut

  30. Pictures by SteakandcheeseUm · · Score: 5, Funny

    What the hell are they doing in This picture?
    http://www.sco.com/images/landing_pages/people.gif
    I for one, am glad that they got h4x0r3d after publishing this smut.

    1. Re:Pictures by Gleng · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's a publicity photo from SCO OpenBukkake 3.7.

      (The "before" photo.)

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  31. 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?