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Hackers, Meet Microsoft
Mz6 writes "The random chatter of several hundred Microsoft engineers filled the cavernous executive briefing center recently at the company's sprawling campus outside Seattle. Within minutes after their meeting was convened, however, the hall became hushed. Hackers had successfully
lured a Windows laptop onto a malicious wireless network. 'It was just silent,' said Stephen Toulouse, a program manager in Microsoft's security unit. 'You couldn't hear anybody breathe.' The demo was part of an extraordinary two days in which outsiders were invited into the heart of the Windows empire for the express purpose of exploiting flaws in Microsoft computing systems. The event, which Microsoft has not publicized, was dubbed 'Blue Hat' -- a reference to the widely known 'Black Hat' security conference, tweaked to reflect Microsoft's corporate color."
What were they thinking? "Oh, shit our OS isn't secure?"
The event, which Microsoft has not publicized, was dubbed 'Blue Hat' -- a reference to the widely known 'Black Hat' security conference, tweaked to reflect Microsoft's corporate color.
Must... not... make... obvious... BSOD comment.... aughhh!
To me, it's a far more fitting name.
Come to think of it.... BLUE screen!
From TFA, "... some of the engineers were turning red, becoming obviously angry at the demo hacking incident ..."
I would think they would be looking at their shoes.
...like a Phoenix. Slowly, people are catching on. I mean, this HAD to raise some eyebrows.
It's one thing to read about this on the internet - people say all sorts of things on the internet and you learn to tune it out ater a while.
But seeing it in front of your own very eyes, watching the hack attack commence in the blink of an eye, the pulse of a heartbeat, the shiver of a twitch, the essence of a raindrop, the flash of an instant, with the click of flint before it ignites the gunpowder in a Civil War era cannon-- etc-- it's shocking.
And so, ten years later, after learning from the hackers, their once-sworn enemies, the Great Microsoft rose to became Operating System: NWO. And that, my children, is the story of how Herr Syrs Bill Gates and Al Gore created and patented the internet.
The event, which Microsoft has not publicized, was dubbed 'Blue Hat' -- a reference to the widely known 'Black Hat' security conference, tweaked to reflect Microsoft's corporate color.
Hey, IBM is Mr. Blue! Microsoft is Mr. Pink!
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
M$'s corporate color is blue? Could have sworn it was green.
- Peace
Free as in "the Truth shall set you..."
would be more appropriate than Blue Hat conference.
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How many Red Hat jokes are going to be made now?
Resulted in the BLUE screen of death!
My wife doesn't listen to me either...
You know that picture is almost on-topic.
Black hats do black magic
Blue hats do blue screens of death
Wondering why i am doing so strange posts? I am trying to get a "+5,Flamebait" or "-1,Insightful" rating.
fta: Nevertheless, he understands why not all Microsoft developers were satisfied with the explanation.
"I'm also sure Ford wasn't too happy with (Ralph) Nader's reports in the late '60s," he said. "What do you mean you are telling people our cars can blow up?"
I wonder if Bill actually laughed the first time he read the microsoft car joke?
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I'm glad your parents decided to fuck without birth control. Truly you are one of humanity's greatest accomplishments.
PS: You're a fag.
Sheesh! It's 2005 and there are still unpatched vulnerabilities. Damn hackers, they're always faster than us! (/sarcasm)
... today.
... right?
Heck, they just released a bug fix for an IE bug that was already fixed, put back in by mistake (since it was still in IE), and refixed in Firefox
Wow, it's like watching paint dry.
Luckily for them hackers just go away on vacation in the intervening years between bug fixes
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"It was just silent," said Stephen Toulouse, a program manager in Microsoft's security unit. "You couldn't hear anybody breathe."
And then some guy in the back stands up and starts yelling "Developers! Developers! Developers..."
When questioned further... "Oh! I thought you meant SHEEP attacks. That damn Chupacabra!"
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how many of these vice-presidents actually went on to demonstrate that knowledge?
Give them credit.
How many of 'em have sat in their lounge, constructing
a heap of crisp $100 bills from their annual bonus,
only to find it "overflowing" into the kitchen.
Yeah...M$ MEANT for that to happen. Here's the real story:
M$ Exec 1: "Oh sh*t!!! We've got a security problem. One of our computers has been lured to a baaaaad network"
M$ Exec 2: "Crap. Wait, I know. Get MarComm on the phone. We'll tell the world we were running a test. We're finding flaws so we can fix them. Yeah, that's the ticket."
M$ Exec 1: "Good thinking! Maybe we should tell them to also release a statement that the BSOD is actually Microsoft's commitment to employee health. A soothing blue screen comes up, gently reminding employees to get up, stretch their legs, refocus their eyes..."
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts...for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang
That's the point -- there weren't just network programmers, or compiler writers, or the reps from the security business unit who'd go to Black Hat anyway. People from across the organization showed up.
Chill. I was there. You'd have liked it.
1) The right way
2) The wrong way
3) The Max Power way*
* same as the wrong way, only faster
Homer J. Simpson
"Hackers, Meet Microsoft"
Oh, I see you're already well-aquanited!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Ill get Mod'd down for this, but... green money.... & yellow envy (your buddies on *nix)
...the SIGnificance of inSIGnificance is SIGnificant...
Stop arguing about clinical definitions and just change the goddamn font.
K.