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Vista Hackers Get Busy
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's long-awaited Windows Vista release Thursday for business customers will get more than just the passing attention of network administrators. That's because hackers will be eagerly waiting to do what hackers do best: start some mischief." Some folks on the Black Hat set got a sneak peek at Vista earlier this year, so they've had time to prepare.
Yeah, hacking a beta would lose you style points . . . . .
I don't even have the operating system installed and I'm worrying about the hackers and the virus already.
That right! First we'll all drop $300 on Vista, crack it, that will show them!!
Wait....
``I give the first verified Vista exploit 90 days from the day they ship to consumers.''
Is that because it takes them 187 days to verify it?
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
They were all standing around with their tents in their black hats waiting to crack stuff and make keygens and shit. I asked why they were waiting in line when they could have had the RTM weeks ago on Usenet? They replied, "What's Usenet?" Those black hats must really fuck with the circulation in your head. I wonder if Slashdot editors wear black hats.
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
I'm sure someone has managed not only to circumvent WGA, but r00t Microsoft's WGA servers and set the Administrator account's screensaver to a marquee: "Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all."
Is this the game where you have to count how many seconds it takes for /dev/null to fill up? Im up to 6 already!!! :)
3 things about computers: they're alive, they're self-aware, and they hate your guts.
puzzle game ... closed, hidden, and exciting to findIsn't that the credo of Windows users?
"6 months running, don't know what the hell is happening, time for (another) reinstall!"
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My backup archive server NEVER runs out of space. I've been archiving old backups to /dev/null weekly for four years now. It is amazingly efficient.
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You mean REALLY liking computers won't turn my hair blue and introduce me to a world of leather clad babes and techno music? I thought I just wasn't using mine enough. This is disappointing.
Yeah, I don't really understand why people get mad at "hacker == cracker". They're mislabled as badboys. You wouldn't want them mislabeling you as fat lonely nerds who live in their....
Wait.
Shit.
But, much like someone above said, to each his own. I like playing games, and most games are not available for Linux. Dont get me wrong, Linux is fantastic, but it just lacks that ease of use and get up and go that Windows has. And yes, the WGA thing does keep me up at night, staring at my computer, expecting it to try and kill me in my sleep. And then take my wallet.
-Red
Guns don't kill people, "with glowing hearts" kills people.
Then the interesting thing would be to see how many people actually just keep Linux.
- Greg
Start a happiness pandemic
I've had vista for nigh on seventy years, and I had to walk backwards up a hill for forty miles at 4am every day to use it! And we didn't have none of those fancy computers to run it on, we had to manipulate the bits with our fingers, in the snow, without gloves on!
I like my coffee the way I like my women - roasted and ground up into little tiny pieces.
we had to manipulate the bits with our fingers, in the snow, without gloves on!
You had FINGERS? You lucky dog. We used to sit around at night, in the freezing cold, dreaming about what it would be like to have fingers...
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Mercy me I can't imagine there will be any vulnerabilities at all in this newest highest priced, longest to develop & release version of Microsoft's ratio sum ultra of enterprise operating systems. And even if there are and someone exploits them that would just be unfair and mean. I'm sure I wouldn't want to know about any exploits in this the most critical and hyped version of Microsoft Windows.
They should have released Vista during NASCAR season, then the crackers would've been too distracted to mess with it.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Also, by changing three files in Vista, you can trick it to think it is Win9x, and use 50 times less memory than it uses otherwise.
Really ? Hmmm. I can't help but wonder if my coasters would look better with a 0 Day vista on them.
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