Ohio Cracker Confesses to Attacks For Hire
Ritalin16 writes "An Ohio computer hacker recently pled guilty to carrying out crippling denial-of-service attacks on a shady internet hosting company's competitors. From the article: 'In a deal with prosecutors, Richard "Krashed" Roby, 20, pleaded guilty in federal court in Toledo last month to intentionally damaging a protected computer, after launching a 2003 attack on an online satellite TV retailer that caused at least $120,000 in losses.'" Another article indicating an openness on the international stage to cracking for cash.
I know Richard Roby, and it's good to see he's finally getting what he deserves. He's attacked my IRC Network a lot. He's also famous for bringing down mIRCx.com.
In soviet Russia, Linux compiles YOU!
The ISP involved is CIT, aka foonet. Here's a link (google cache to information regarding the takedown.
Ohio Cracker Confesses to Attacks For Hire
Man, why do we have to bring race into this?
Be better in bed. Wikiafterdark!
This is neither hacking, nor is it cracking. This is just filthy DoSsing.
you should see how they do things in the field business. I've done repair jobs on more dish installations than I could count which were monkeywrenched by a competing service when they did a prior add-on or upgrade and did everything they could to badmouth and undercut the prior guy and then farked up the work they did and blamed it on that poor sap.
The satellite biz is loaded with huckesters, scammers, and just plain bad people from suppliers to installers to servicers. This doesn't surprise me at all. When you have people selling RG-11 jumpers as "Monster Satellite Coax Cable", when you have $2.36 diplexors being sold as "Super High Tech Satellite Splitters" for $32.95+ and $3 roof tar sealant being sold as "Hi-Tech Satellite Waterproofing" for $20 a tube, you know the woods are thick with people whose ethics are not just questionable, but gone entirely.
The things I've seen in satellite work... They make cable companies look like emissaries of Heaven and the phone company like Knights of the Round Table.
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)
The answer: it may surprize you.
I suggest you read Slashdot
Hackers, crackers, and even the lowly DOSers no longer have to pretend that they are malevolent killers, but now can pretend that they are hitmen. There's a distinction there that lends itself well to delusional self-image and far too much RPGing. (Lawful evil folks often have more interesting campaigns than chaotic evil.)
I have little to say, but even less to lose by saying it.
Attacking companies' online presence and preventing them doing business is only a step away from being as bad as smashing a store's windows in and tossing a stink/smoke bomb in and clearing the store out for an entire day while the workers clean up. If they were to destroy all of the databases, corrupt the server settings and destroy the web applications, it would be almost as bad as throwing a pipe bomb in through the window at night after everyone is gone. This is no more honorable than hiring the mafia to "protect you" from competitors.
Click here or a puppy gets stomped!
Why are unsubstantiated claims rated "Interesting"?
He probably did you what say, but without proof these claims are nothing more than the ravings of a gossiper.
Where is the beef, sir?
Practices of DDos'ing servers is upsetting. It disrupts the generally shared used of the Net among the community of users. Equally upsetting (in this case), is the fact you can practically put a competing small business out of business by participating in this type of conduct.
... (while other servers would not). Is there anything that is being implemented to eliminate DDOS attacks altogether?
As a somewhat techie, I know that packets can be dropped from their "origin" but someone surely incurs a cost (either in implementing this feature) or having to deal with the packets anyways e.g. bandwidth costs
My dad said there was nothing he could really do, since the guy was his boss, except inform customers to pretend to know what they're doing so that they don't get taken advantage of. Come to think of it, this also happens at places like Best Buy when it comes to computers.
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Rather than innovate, I think we'll see more companies resorting to attacks of competitors' information systems. Innovation costs real money. You have to hire really smart people and they're not as inexpensive as the dullards who willingly participate in these schemes.
Of course, it's a matter of time before terrorists and/or other countries (China and North Korea being two that come to mind) start these kinds of attacks on their enemies' or perceived enemies infrastructure.
Gods don't kill people, people with gods kill people.
"In his plea agreement, Ashley admitted he knowingly allowed clients and employees to control networks of compromised Windows machines, or 'bots,' from Foonet."
Now I realize that this may come across as trolling, but it doesn't make it any less true. If Windows wasn't so difficult for Joe Sixpack to lock down to the point where it can be used in a semi-secure fashion, it might be a different story. As it stands, you need a good antivirus, multiple spyware tools, browser hardening tools (if you continue to use IE) or a new browser, patches, service packs and more. And that's just the software end, not even best practice. In an average user's hands, it seems it's not a question of whether the system will be compromised, rather of who cracks it first. In this case, it seems to have been a script kiddie from Ohio.
Working in a DevOps shop is like playing in a band made up entirely of keytarists.
Hookers overcharge a lot, too.
At least that's what I've heard...
Wired's article used the word hacker, here on /. it's cracker. Pussy ass Politcally-Correct-PC-hackering motherfuckers.
pretend to know what they're doing so that they don't get taken advantage of. Come to think of it, this also happens at places like Best Buy when it comes to computers.
Funny, I always get the impression the BB sales staff is pretending they know what they are doing so that I won't take advantage of them.
Those damn whiteys finally getting what they deserve.
I'm off to "federal pound-me-up-the-ass prison"
-Richard Roby
this is not Offtopic, its funny...
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All complicit parties belong in jail. The person who hired the hit and the person who carried it out.
STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!
Did you read it and think... A black man must have wrote this headline? Finally, an Ohio Cracker gets sent to jail....
Jay Echouafni, the 38-year-old satellite TV mogul who allegedly ordered and funded the cyberhits, went on the lam last year, and remains a fugitive from a federal indictment out of Los Angeles.
the worst part is that this guy is still out there and hasn't been caught yet. hopefully it's only a matter of time before he's nabbed
Who would have thought a Ritz could use a computer, let alone dDoS businesses?
I mean, if someone's name is 'Krashed', surely he's some sort of criminal...
Man I really thought as I read the headline was that a slashdot editor was pissed off at white people. Than I realized this was slashdot, and remeber there are other meanings for cracker.
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I'm glad I caught your comment despite it being unfairly mod'd. Rest assured it will be modded back up and the people that modded you "Troll" will be meta-moderated into never having mod points again.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to Cracker Barrell for dinner tonight.
I'm a big tall mofo.
"Under federal sentencing guidelines, Ashley faces 70 to 87 months in prison for his role in the attacks" Unless he pleads non-guilty, which he should. If you plead guilty then they give you the maximum sentence. Non-guilty defendants have a change of arguing a couple of years off their sentence.
Did anyone else read that as "Ohio White Boy Confesses to Attacks for Hire"?
its nice to see richard crash and burn.
To a nail, every person with a hammer looks like a problem.
Roby shouldn't be getting a bloody deal, he should be in Jail being someones bitch.
The guy attacks small ISPs with a disregard for other peoples livelyhoods.
Filthy script kiddie DoSSer
Posted AC for obvious reasons
wInd0z!!!!
LolL you know windoz si gfor hackerszzz.
PROUd luinix usar fo 200 yeaRS!!!!!1
I always like to retell my best buy experience when the subject comes up simply because it was so frustratingly lame.
I was going to purchase a laptop from them -- I did my research to make sure all of the essential hardware would run with my choice distro, yadda yadda.
I walked into a store and instead of just picking the laptop up, decided to go ask one of their sales droids about it. "Will it run Linux?"
The basic thing I got from him was that it would not. It was way underpowered to run a Linux server. (I had a 400MHz PII that ran RH, and this laptop had at least twice the stats of EVERYTHING the ol' PII had). I explained I didn't want a server but a desktop install. Same thing, he says. Says they all run their Linux servers on Alienware laptops.
Asks why I disliked XP. Performance issues, security issues, MS antics. Guy tries to sell me XP Pro instead. Tells me an alphabet soup of certification credentials to make himself the smarter one...then says Bill Gates had bought out Linux and that in a year we wouldn't even be talking about Linux at all. This was two years ago.
I politely thanked him and said I'd go home to rethink my strategy. I bought a Dell. Now running on Ubuntu Hoary.
So yeah, not sure if that guy still works at that Best Buy but the degree of misinformation to upsell shtuff can get ugly.
I believe they prefer the term 'melatoninally-challenged computer enthusiast'.
Someone with mod points please fix. Parent was just making a point, and his statement certainly didn't deserve that -1.
as Chris Rock would say...
Two things are being done. First, the FBI is nailing inept perpetrators as they can. This is like trying to cure a flea infestation by pinching the fleas off your friend's back. The second, more effective thing is the replacement of Windoze. Without Windoze, there will be no botnet. If you are new here, I suggest you get one of the following to improve your computing experience and help stamp out the weakness that will destroy the net:
With so many choices, there will never be Windoze type problems on free software. The exploits will not carry into more than 10% of the install base at a time. Go get some and take a bite out of crime.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Knights? More like robber barons. The only difference between them and incumbent telcos is that the incumbents are backed by government granted monopolies. The guys who did everything in their power to keep you from hooking a modem to your phone line are still overcharging you for their obsolete services. You won't find unilaterally changeable contracts outside of government protected business and there's a reason for it.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Roby and the rest of his cracker gang are criminals and deserve jailtime when they're proven guilty. But the cops caught these guys because all they had to use to get away was a measly $1000. The guy who hired them, Echouafni, is "on the lam", because he's got the money to hide. So the cops and prosecutors will pounce all over Roby, because he's an easy target. Will the keystone kops take any heat for not getting Echouafni, who will easily find other people who are "brilliant in one area, but absolutely lacking in common sense in others"?
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make install -not war
The whole point of a DDoS is that the packets originate from a whole bunch of different machines!
I agree, and think this could be a very nice lawsuit there, a class action one perhaps. I fail to see after years of warnings and how obvious it is that windows is more or less completely unsuitable for internet connections that they (MS) haven't been sued back to the stone age. I know if I was running a business and was getting DDoSed from hacked windows boxes, I would not only sue the originator if caught, but all the little bots out there. Screw em. If it's coming from your machine, you are responsible for it.
If your brakes fail from a defect and from you not really giving a crap about maintaining them adequately, and the car rolls down the hill and creams someone, too bad, it's still your fault even if you claim "I didn't know". You can then sue the manufacturer later, but the cops will still arrest you or charge you in the first place. How is this any different from running a compromised machine?
If you (generic anyone you) don't care to run something more secure on the net or take the time to make it secure, well, you are "maintaining an attractive nuisance", and being negligent, and there is past precedent for it, albeit not for computers yet, but it *could* happen. And then THOSE folks could in turn sue MS for selling them bogus crap not suitable for internet connections. I say take it on up the food chain if you get nailed by someone's compromised machine, and I don't care if it's someones grandma either. The RIAA and their ilk have no problems identifying IP numbers and suing individual people, I say it's high time that these windows bot runners get sued, whether they know about it or not. Enough's enough on the "I didn't knopw" excuse, this is 2005, not 1995, you have to be living in a cave to not know that windows machines are highly insecure and extremely easy to be compromised, and FOR SURE microsoft and the ISPs know this.
If you need to bring down your competitor's network to keep earning money, shouldn't YOU be the one who needs to be brought down?
It just reminds me of microsoft, squashing or buying the competition. I really think such actions should merit a trial on monopolic practices.
Someone let Chris Rock know those damn crackers finally getting their due!!
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Funny, I always get the impression the BB sales staff is pretending they know what they are doing so that I won't take advantage of them.
I have observed that their web prices are different than their store prices, so I do have to go in there with a printout of their website to get their web price. I imagine I "could" change all the prices around and take advantage of them if I really felt the need.
But needless to say the parent should be marked as informative.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
"Ohio Cracker Confesses . . . "
I can't believe nobody else has taken offense to this. "Cracker" is a highly-charged derogatory term. The politically correct term is "Saltine-American."
What those who want activist courts fear is rule by the people.
Hookers overcharge a lot, too. At least that's what I've heard...
What... $10.00 for a condom... oh wait a high tech latex prophylactic with 5ml reservoir tip?
$20 for a tube of hypoallergenic waterbased lubricant?
$25 bio-waste disposal fee?
Funny, the BB staff pretends to tell me about their products but then just pays me to leave so I don't make them look bad.
I think the plumbing industry is probably much the same. Moving a dishwasher this weekend, I snapped an improperly soldered joint the previous home owners had done themselves. I call in a plumber. He says he can't resolder the joint and he would have to charge me $125 to open the wall and see what is going on.
He heads out to his truck and in the 5 minutes he is out there, I grab my rotozip and open the wall (Wow, 5 minutes of work just saved me $125). He looks at it and comes up with some other stuff that is problematic (this stuff was genuinely problematic). Now he says he would have re-do the entire last 3 feet of pipeline up to the outlet, but this time he's not going to charge me to open the wall (as I've already shown that I can do it myself). So he writes me up an invoice for $650 to cut the old pipe off and replace it after the wall is opened up.
Included in the quote is a $50 3-way outlet. I already know that Home Depot sells those for $8.
So I did it myself. And as it turns out, I didn't need to open up any more wall than I already had. I spent $50 on parts to learn how to sweat copper pipes together. Another $75 on a MAPP torch, solder, flux, wire pipe cleaner, pipe cutting tool, etc.. About 2 hours with a book reading up on how to sweat the fittings. 4 hours practicing soldering with copper. Voila! Problem solved!
Now had the plumber charged $200 instead, I would have just paid him to do it and not learned how to fix the pipes myself.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett (1794 - 1865)
Funny, I wasn't aware of cracker being a slang term for a whitey. Which part of the world is that from?
Oh well, what the hell...
Don't forget the initial Slashdot story where most posters took the Eeevil FBI position.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
"Krashed"
How appropriate.
If Nalgene water bottles are outlawed, only outlaws will have Nalgene water bottles.
It's from the United States. Urban Dictionary has many definitions of the term, but this (set of) definition(s) is perhaps the most complete and accurate:
1: A firecracker
2: A thin, crisp wafer
3: One whom cracks illegally into another's computer or network
4: A racist term used against Caucasians/Whites
"Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
...a cracka-ass cracka!
Reminder: Apple owns 1/255th of the internet.
In 1999 I bought a display model 17" monitor for $179 from Best Buy. They tried to sell me the extra warranty - whispering that if /anything/ happened to it like say, I accidentally plugged the thing into a 220V AC outlet, they would have to replace it, and by a year from then there would be no such thing as a CRT monitor, so I would have to be given a nice new LCD. Well that monitor just died and since my parents inherited it, they went out and bought another CRT. Of course, this is 5x longer than that warranty would have lasted, and LCDs are just barely getting competitive in price.
This is from the Southern United States, and the term comes from nickname slaves gave the the white slave driver, who "cracks" the whip. Cracker is now used a racially charged pejorative against whites.
Haha...I though they meant cracker as in "white person"......lol......
What's funny is the FBI page on the guy listed the race as White. Your milage may vary.
{ducks}
The truth shall set you free!
Please explain to us how you are going to prevent 100 million clueless users from allowing their machines to be p0wn3d when they get that email with a REALLY COOL SCREENSAVER!!!1! and a .tar file attachment that has a script with the execute bit set. I mean, they infect their 'Windoze' machines now that way. With worms on password-protected ZIP files. Please tell us how you're going to prevent them from entering their root password when a program they downloaded from Kazaa asks them for it.
Go ahead, enlighten us as to what is going to happen when 100 million people switch from 'Windoze'.
Go ahead, enlighten us as to what is going to happen when 100 million people switch from 'Windoze'.
The same thing that's happened to the 5 million or so Mac users and the 5 million or so Linux users: Absolutely nothing bad. The system itself has reasonable defaults and give the user a clue. The system itself also has a way of getting that cool software, if it's not already loaded, without having to download it from some random spyware shop. Root passwords should not have to be entered often, so this should come as a shock to the user of a good distro. These systems are already out there and they already don't have Windoze type problems. The 12 minute windoze half life does not require user intervention. Anything is better than that.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
No, no. Picture 100 million clueless users who use 'Windoze' right now using Linux. Using Xandros or Linspire. Go ahead, you can do it. Try harder. Extrapolate. Now picture maybe 300 million (give or take). Use a few brain cells. You write these incredible insightful essays on how 'Windoze' is the source of all of humanity's problems, surely you can also think for a second and imagine something like that. A Linux botnet. An OS X botnet. 300 million boxes out there. The possibilities are endless. A Firefox vulnerability, another OpenSSH remote hole on a distro with a custom support app written to work over SSH (for example). C'mon now, you can do it.
Unless of course your position is that something like that is impossible to happen. Impossible. Because operating systems other than 'Windoze' have the ability to dispell away user stupidity. Surely... you don't think so, do you?
This is your chance to back your claims up, let's hear it!
'Unless of course your position is that something like that is impossible to happen. Impossible. Because operating systems other than 'Windoze' have the ability to dispell away user stupidity. Surely... you don't think so, do you?'
Obviously this is not what he was saying.
The idea is that with intelligent defaults an OS can significantly mitigate user ineptitude.
The impact of bugs such as the recent Cisco security flaw [if it would have been more readily exploitable] are also further lessened by having not just a single OS so readily attackable, but by having many varying OSs with less than predictable composition.
In other words, I'm magically less likely to do something stupid on Linux than I am on 'Windoze'. So for example, I would never download a tarball that has a script with the execute bit turned on, and then blindly run it. Never. That's out of the question. I'll do it on 'Windoze', because 'Windoze' makes me stupid, but never on Linux. No sir, no way.
Give me a break.
many varying OSs with less than predictable composition
That is true today, but it won't be once Linux (or OS X or whatever) gains any meaningful ground against Microsoft on the desktop. With market share will come consolidation, and with consolidation will come yet-another-monoculture. This is inevitable.
and then blindly run it...
d itorials/dumb/ #5 and my hope that in the future, users will have to actually jump through some hoops before allowing themselves to be pwnd.
Indeed, in terms of hapless users opening executable attachments however, I defer to http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/e
With so many choices, there will never be Windoze type problems on free software.
This is just wrong...
The exploits will not carry into more than 10% of the install base at a time.
This is much more likely however.
The idea that security through obscurity only leads to a monoculture of what was once obscure. Good coding practices and quality software design with open auditing of the code however do afford a much better chance of dodging known as well as unknown remote attacks, regardless of what portion of hardware out there runs said code. This is most certainly not something Windows has going for it.
I haven't used a version of linux or BSD yet that didn't require the root password to install software, which is a far from seldom occurrence.
Linux is far from bulletproof. We are all going to have a rude awakening if and when it gains more desktop marketshare. The biggest problem securing any piece of software is still the user, in any OS.
once you go slack, you never go back
The scene with the hammer ?
WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM!
Now he can't type. Best of all, record it and post it onto the web so other hackers, crackers, DOSers get the idea....
Guns are for wimps... Use a crossbow.. this way you can pin them to their chair when you go postal.
Bingo, this is why many of my frineds I inform them how to install their own diectTV dish themselves and save $100.00 on $3.25 worth of installation work. Yes the installers do such a crappy job they are only worth about that. they butcher your house, butcher the install, and intentionally cause problems on the roof if you do not pay for their "premium" crap.
I helped a friend with it, we secretly videotaped his install and were able to sue the installer for repairs and get him in jail for 90 days for blatently lying to the judge.
The fun part was after his lawsuit and the local paper coverage others came out of the woodwork to sue this turd.
One of the rare times I saw the system actually work... Unfortunately most people and my buddy will get nothing out of him.... Just because you lose a lawsuit does not mean you have to pay anything to the winner. scumbags will find a way to skip out on it.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
So you rethought your strategy and bought a Dell... Yep, you should have kept thinking.
Funny, I always get the impression the BB sales staff is pretending they know what they are doing so that I won't take advantage of them.
Spot on. I walked out BBuy the other day when a guy tried to sell me a TV that supported 760p that had the native resolution of "480 or 840"
are as closely guarded as the missile sites...3tk4/nyc/c1980
Light Happens.
Please, I prefer the term "European-American."
I'm an African-American White, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddist, Confusion...
Oh well, what the hell...
By definition, an amateur boxer is beating the crap out of people without getting paid for it. If he gets paid, he's a pro. If he kicks somebodys ass outside the ring, he goes to jail, unless he has a good lawyer and a tight selfdefense case.
If he beats your ass in the ring, it's a fight by mutual consent, and (at least theoretically) between evenly matched opponents.
Yeah, yeah, I know.. IHBT. IHL. HAND.
I'm posting this so that you (the moderator) have some context to consider twitter and not mod him up whenever he posts his filler preformatted rants about installing Knoppix or Mepis or whatever that unfortunately get him karma every single time and allow him to continue posting his trademark toxic crap (read on) day in and day out. You may consider this a troll - I consider it community service. And I ain't kidding.
If you're a /. subscriber, I invite you to look through some of his posting history. I guarantee that you'll be hard pressed to find someone that is more "out there" than twitter. You'll also probably notice he's got quite an AC following. Don't just read his posts, make sure you go through the replies.
To get an idea of what I'm talking about, check this post out. This is an article about email disclaimers. The parent of the post is complaining about the ads in the linked page and so on, and twitter actually goes off on a rant to blame it on Microsoft and recommend Lynx, because "is teh free".
Here's another. In this post twitter not only calls the OP a troll but attempts to "tell it like it is" while making some vague argument about "GNU". Yes, if you're confused, you're not alone. The reply (modded +4) proceeds to simply destroy his bogus argument. You will notice he did not reply. This is what some people call "drive-by advocacy". A sort of I'll just leave you with my thoughts here and move on to the next flamebait kind of deal. In fact, he almost never replies because he knows that his fanatical arguments simply do not hold up to any sort of discussion. It's not that he's chosen the wrong cause - he's just going at it in a completely wrong way.
Here's that drive-by advocacy and FUD in motion: twitter goes on about some topic and then drops the usual "oh and M$ is teh evil" because "WMP phones home" or some such. Called on his FUD, he then claims that WMP stores every song and movie you've ever played in a file, somewhere. Pressed further, he just sort of slithers out of sight, his FUD-spreading complete. This is not about some Microsoft technology that nobody likes anyway; it's about lying for the sake of lying. Way too many of his posts are exactly like this one.
More? Just read though this post and the subsequent replies. I guess this stands on its own. Or these two. Or this one. Or this one.
Still not convinced? This is what twitter considers "humour" while going about his daily "M$" routine.
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I'm posting this so that you (the moderator) have some context to consider twitter and not mod him up whenever he posts his filler preformatted rants about installing Knoppix or Mepis or whatever that unfortunately get him karma every single time and allow him to continue posting his trademark toxic crap (read on) day in and day out. You may consider this a troll - I consider it community service. And I ain't kidding.
If you're a /. subscriber, I invite you to look through some of his posting history. I guarantee that you'll be hard pressed to find someone that is more "out there" than twitter. You'll also probably notice he's got quite an AC following. Don't just read his posts, make sure you go through the replies.
To get an idea of what I'm talking about, check this post out. This is an article about email disclaimers. The parent of the post is complaining about the ads in the linked page and so on, and twitter actually goes off on a rant to blame it on Microsoft and recommend Lynx, because "is teh free".
Here's another. In this post twitter not only calls the OP a troll but attempts to "tell it like it is" while making some vague argument about "GNU". Yes, if you're confused, you're not alone. The reply (modded +4) proceeds to simply destroy his bogus argument. You will notice he did not reply. This is what some people call "drive-by advocacy". A sort of I'll just leave you with my thoughts here and move on to the next flamebait kind of deal. In fact, he almost never replies because he knows that his fanatical arguments simply do not hold up to any sort of discussion. It's not that he's chosen the wrong cause - he's just going at it in a completely wrong way.
Here's that drive-by advocacy and FUD in motion: twitter goes on about some topic and then drops the usual "oh and M$ is teh evil" because "WMP phones home" or some such. Called on his FUD, he then claims that WMP stores every song and movie you've ever played in a file, somewhere. Pressed further, he just sort of slithers out of sight, his FUD-spreading complete. This is not about some Microsoft technology that nobody likes anyway; it's about lying for the sake of lying. Way too many of his posts are exactly like this one.
More? Just read though this post and the subsequent replies. I guess this stands on its own. Or these two. Or this one. Or this one.
Still not convinced? This is what twitter considers "humour" while going about his daily "M$" routine.
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