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Sober Attack on 87th Anniversary of the Nazi Party

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.""

13 of 302 comments (clear)

  1. Will it chat over AIM? by Alsier · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But will it chat over AIM? 'lol no this is not a Nazi'

  2. Someone had to do it by Sheepdot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    lol thats cool

    lol no its not a nazi spam

  3. Re:Why are these people so attracted to the Nazis? by jumpingfred · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The criteria for Time's Man of the Year is the man who had the most influence on news that year. Nothing about it being an influence for good.

  4. Re:Summary Unclear by ShortSpecialBus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If it was that simple, you'd think they could have said it at least once in the summary.

    Lazy friggen editors!

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  5. Re:And the announcement coincides with... by Widowwolf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I cant tell if you are being ignorant or just plain idiotic

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  6. Not the most obvious anniversary by LordByronStyrofoam · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    More significantly, it's the 50th anniversary of Elvis's recording of "Heartbreak Hotel".

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  7. Re:Why are these people so attracted to the Nazis? by Dun+Malg · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I, for one, do not know what 'paredon' means. I googled it and came up with a surf camp in Guatamala http://elparedonsurfcamp.tripod.com/ I fail sto see how this resort pertains to my hero on a motorcycle, scourge of fascists until he was brutally murdered by the CIA, Che Guevera.

    Clearly you're skipping the spanish language results. Don't look for it in english-- you'll only find references to that surf camp. By translating sentences found via google searching for "paredon -surf -surfing", you get a vague idea of what it means-- something like "struggle", "uprising", or "popular anti-government activity". It's possibly significant that Paredon is a place in the Mexican state of Chiapas. "El paredon" has a definite meaning in the latin american revolutionary subculture, but its meaning isn't clearly communicated anywhere in english. At any rate, I think the OP's point is probably that the latin american struggle against bad government is much larger than one semi-successful revolutionary some forty years gone.

    And FWIW, Che was murdered by the Bolivian military. The CIA was quite pissed about that because they wanted to capture him alive (as if that would've turned out better!)

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  8. For the curious by stuckinarut · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1757 - Louis XV of France survives the assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France with the traditional and gruesome form of death penalty used for regicides.

    In France, the traditional punishment for regicide or attempted regicide under the ancien régime is often described as "quartering", though it in fact has little to do with the English punishment. The process was as follows: the regicide would be first tortured with red-hot pincers, then the hand with which the crime was committed would be burnt with sulphur and molten lead and wax and boiling oil poured into the wounds. The quartering would be accomplished by the attachment of the victim's limbs to horses, who would then tear them away from the body. Finally, the often still-living torso would be burnt.
  9. Re:because people are lazy by Superfreaker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or because you're a Karma whore and did not RTFA or know anything about the Sober worm and that it spams using nazi-propaganda web sites? At least post AC.

  10. Re:The all - important number 87 by nihaopaul · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i have no plans to reverse engineer anything, especially not windows when i can bearly understand why i can't download the internet onto this cd, i've seen people write they can put it onto a floopy disk!

  11. New poll by saskboy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There ought to be a new Slashdot Poll:
    Who enjoys article summaries that make no sense and have obvious errors?
    -Me
    -Not Me
    -CowboyNeal

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  12. Re:Why are these people so attracted to the Nazis? by huge+colin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why is that a "load of crap"? Seems to be entirely correct, actually.

  13. Re:Why are these people so attracted to the Nazis? by minus_273 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "And FWIW, Che was murdered by the Bolivian military."

    how can you murder a criminal fighting against you? lets forget how many people che personally killed.

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