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The New Face of Script Kiddiez
An anonymous reader writes "Washingtonpost.com's Security Fix blog has an interesting post profiling the activities of a kid named Witlog who controls a botnet of roughly 30,000 hacked Windows PCs. Even after the authorities manage to shut down the network Witlog uses to control his bots, he pops up somewhere else. From the article: 'Witlog may in fact be the product of a new generation of script kiddiez; the chief distinguishing feature of this generation being that instead of using Web site flaws to deface as many Web sites as possible, these guys are breaking into thousands of home and work PCs and taking them for a virtual joyride, often times all the way to the bank.'"
Whois on witlog.com -- shouldn't be too hard for authorities to find this guy -- provided the information was correct in the first place, which it probably isn't. Let's see what else we can dig up...
Domain ID: D3421420-CNO
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Tech Address: Mehrumer Str. 16
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CORE - [Internet Council of Registrars]
This is humorous and, being a play on the article title, is on topic. Now, I said humorous, I did not say it was hilarious, but c'mon you fucks, offtopic?! I never get mod points very often, otherwise I'd correct this, but if a joke isn't very funny you don't correct this by pretending it's offtopic.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
I've been posting on this forum for years but I don't think I have ever seen such rapid moderation. The score for my post went from 2 to 5 then down to zero then back up and is now back down to 1 I think. I find it interesting that not only are there a lot of people who agree how horrible rape is and think it is good that I called someone to task for such a posting, but that there are so many spending mod points and making comments defending the raping of prisoners. It is very sad in many ways, but I find that people often surprise me both by being more horrible than I expect and being more amazing. Thanks for the supportive comment.
The reason it's "funny" isn't that it's actually funny, it's that it's presented in a somewhat witty fashion
Allow me to retort. I don't believe either the graphic phrase "bruised and bloodied" nor "mouth wide open screaming" is particularly witty. I find it to be sadistic.
vengance is a very gratifying human impulse, it's one of the things that separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom-- take that as good or bad as you wish
I'll not argue about whether or not animals feel a sense of vengeance instead I'd like to point out that a lot of things are human impulses, including most that lead to rape. That does not make them laudable nor appropriate topics for mocking jokes. Your attempts to excuse this are equally repugnant.
To address your numbered points:
(1) "threat of homosexual rape", jokes aside, isn't the primary deterrent of prison
I said it was one of the prime deterrents and given the number of times it is cited by police and the media I'd say that is a very valid opinion.
"Joked about cutting off the feet of slaves and torturing Jews". Probably so. But this really doesn't make them any worse than anyone else. Jokes are generally made about unpleasant situations, because that's what they're designed to help us deal with.
Jokes that help people continue to look the other way by ridiculing those suffering are part of the problem. They make it easier to accept a horrible thing and easier to do nothing about it. They let people who do approve of the horrible thing express that to one another with the "out" of "it's just a joke" if they are called to task. Anyone making jokes about others being raped is just helping to make a abhorrent thing more acceptable and if they don't want to be called to task for it, they should stop doing it. Just as jokes about torturing jews and maiming niggers have gone out of fashion as those practices became unacceptable to society it is past time for raping prisoners to be added to that list.
(3) The term "barbaric" stems from an old greek word meaning "people that don't speak my language". You might want to find a new bit of rhetoric to use, as that one too quickly exposes your lack of ability to cope with anything outside of your own narrow worldview.
I see, the word origins of "barbaric" are the best you can pull together for this ad hominem attack? Pathetic. I'm sorry my "narrow world view" does not approve of anal rape. If you want to compose an ad hominem attack you could at least make it a good one, like: maybe your world view finds anal rape to be more acceptable since you don't mind who takes you up your slovenly arse.
(4) And, in conclusion, :-P
Sorry, joking about the extreme mental and physical pain of others may be just fine by you, but it is not by me. It is a real and serious problem in this country and your making light of it is merely one more enabling factor to let our society ignore and tacitly approve of this sickening practice. It's not that I don't understand the joke, it's just that I find it as repulsive as the person who can laugh at it.