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Rutkowska Faces 'Blue Pill' Rootkit Challenge
Controll3r writes "Three high-profile security researchers — Thomas Ptacek of Matasano Security, Nate Lawson of Root Labs and Symantec's Peter Ferrie — have issued a challenge to Joanna Rutkowska to prove that her 'Blue Pill' technology can create "100 percent undetectable" malware. The Black Hat 2007 challenge will feature two untouched laptops of the make/model of Rutkowska's choosing for her to plant Blue Pill on one. From the article: 'She picks one in secret, installs her kit, sets them up however she wants,' Lawson explained in an interview. 'We get to install our software on both and run it, [and] we point out which machine [Blue Pill] is on. If we're wrong, she keeps the laptop.' No word on whether Rutkowska will accept the challenge."
She should say she installed it when in actual fact she didn't...
Then snigger while these guys spend hours scratching their huge domed craniums wondering how she did it.
If she loses, she gets to keep both Toshiba laptops.
grep -i "blue pill"
Duh...
"You guessed wrong."
"You only think we guessed wrong. That's what's so funny! We switched laptops when your back was turned! Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against three high-profile security researchers when a laptop is on the line! Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Ahaha-"
"And to think, all that time it was your laptop that had malware."
"They both had malware. I spent the last few years building up an immunity to blue pills."
SIGSEGV caught, terminating
wait... not that kind of sig.
Those 5 stipulations look like one of those "WHICH OF THESE DO NOT BELONG" SAT questions...
Just weigh the machines. The heavier one would have to have the extra files and stuff.
the other laptop is a witch!
Rutkowska should also think about the reward: "If we're wrong, she keeps the laptop." Who the hell wants a laptop infected with undetectable malware?
A guy walks into a doctor's office. His right eye is bloody and bruised. "Doc," he says, "I've got a problem. Every time I drink cocoa at home, my eye hurts."
The doctor, shocked at the condition of his new patient's eye, runs a gamut of tests, ruling out allergies or other clinical issues. Thinking the issue may be psychosomatic, he sits his patient at a table on which rests a tin of cocoa mix, a thermos of hot water, a cup, and a spoon. He invites the gentleman to mix up the cocoa and take a sip.
The man pours hot water into the cup, and dumps in a couple of heaping spoonfuls of mix, using the spoon to mix vigorously. He then drinks from the cup, and immediately screams. Hastily placing the cup on the table, he clasps his hands to his eye.
"Interesting," the doctor proclaims. "Have you ever considered removing the spoon before drinking?"
(and don't tell me to put Ubuntu on peoples laptops...)
This seems to be a problem of your own making. If you refuse to remove the spoon, you will continue to hurt your eye.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
Make sure it is girls though. If you give it to a pair of teenage boys by the end it'll be full of porn and chat logs filled with "FAG!" comments.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
I'm in ur reformat command, virtualizing ur operations