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Sober Attack on 87th Anniversary of the Nazi Party

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the back-with-a-vengeance dept.

Jack writes "ITO is reporting that Sober is scheduled to attack on January 2006 - the data coincides with the 87th anniversary of the Nazi party: "The next planned widespread of 2005's most prolific e-mail worm, Sober, is scheduled to start on January 5, 2006 based on commands hard-coded within the worm. The attack date coincides with the 87th anniversary of the Nazi party.""

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  1. summaries by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    These summaries are getting worse and worse.
    If you only have two sentences, leave it at that! You don't need to put them in the summary twice in the hopes nobody will notice.

  2. Why are these people so attracted to the Nazis? by neo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I mean they had really cool looking uniforms but there's no connection between their philosophies and what these people seem to want. Look up Fascism people! You virus writers won't actually like it. Honest!

    1. Re:Why are these people so attracted to the Nazis? by tnk1 · · Score: 3, Insightful
      I mean they had really cool looking uniforms but there's no connection between their philosophies and what these people seem to want. Look up Fascism people! You virus writers won't actually like it. Honest!


      Oh they wouldn't mind it so much, they'll just make sure that they are the ones doing it to other people. I can't imagine the Nazis would have liked certain of their theories applied to themselves.

      When your culture calls for tall blond Nordic types and your Leader is a short, brown haired guy who looks like Charlie Chaplin, you have to ascribe to the view that some discrepencies are just fine, as long as you are the one defining the rules and have a lot of stormtroopers with guns to keep it that way.

  3. I've never been partial to birthdays by rodoke3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think a more appropriate date would be February 27. The date that led to the total 0wnage of Weimar Germany.

    --
    There's nothing like a good gunfight to uplift the spirit--Calvin
  4. No kidding by paranode · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I mean, lots of stuff happened on January 5th.

    They could be celebrating the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit! Or the first PC by Hewlett Packard! Maybe the birth of Marilyn Manson! Lots of possibilities... or maybe, just maybe... it has no meaning.

    1. Re:No kidding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Lots of possibilities... or maybe, just maybe... it has no meaning.

      Or maybe, just maybe, for a worm used to send nazi spam it has.

    2. Re:No kidding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      There's a 0.274% chance that any event in history happened on the 5th January. I guess the media doesn't get this, nor the fact that no-one celebrates the 87th anniversary of anything. If anything, it says more about the importance of this specific event to the reporter than anything else... my guess is it's just some coder's birthday or somesuch.