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Mac Worm Author Gets Death Threats
StonyandCher write(s) to spread news about the strange story of the reported Apple OS X worm, which is growing stranger by the day. The blog of the researcher who claimed to have created the malware reportedly received death threats. The blog was then hijacked, according to the researcher, who calls him/herself InfoSec Sellout. InfoSec blamed David Maynor for hacking the blog. For his part, Maynor apparently unmasked himself as "LMH" and InfoSec as Jon Ramsey. The post to the Fuzzing mailing list has not been independently confirmed.
Update: 07/19 13:48 GMT by KD : David Maynor wrote in and denies that he is LMH.
Update: 07/19 13:48 GMT by KD : David Maynor wrote in and denies that he is LMH.
Don't cross a mac fanboy....
"Action without philosophy is a lethal weapon; philosophy without action is worthless."
It's been far too long since we had a nice bit of hacker drama! Now, where did I put my popcorn and my MOD vs LOD t-shirt...
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Artsy types get violent when they get mad.
He would have been better off picking a weaker target such Islam. You don't want to mess with those Mac zealots.
Now we know the real reason there is less malware for the Macintosh.
Well, that's one way to keep an OS safe, I guess. Just think how secure Windows would be if Bill Gates focused his vast resources on killing every malware author. Ballmer would probably do the dirty work cheap ... just for the thrill of it all.
Why, Bill might even have a few million bucks left over at the end of the day.
Wasn't there some stories about religious zealots threating professors who taught evolution recently? It all begins to make sense now...
If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through.
The high pricetag of a Mac is enough protection money to last a lifetime.
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I really hate people sometimes. How can anyone be so stuck on themselves that they issue death threats because someone creates a virus for the operating system they use? In doing so, they are saying, "I'd rather you be dead than deal with the possibility that what you created would endanger my computing platform."
If you don't think that is sick, I'm not sure what is. This sort of fanaticism is extremely dangerous, and essentially a curse upon the Apple community.
The Spanish Inquisition?
They just implied not to release the worm or he would be dealt with using their iphones like they did at duke
yet you will notice that all the slashdoters assume he really has a virus and assume he really had threats made against him.
hating Apple is like believing in god, apparently. no amount of proof for it needed, no amount of proof against is enough....
taoist, pantheist, dmozer, nut.
PC: Hi, I'm a PC.
Mac: And I'm a Mac. PC, who are all those people smacking you in the head and rifling your pockets?
PC: [Sigh] Those are viruses and worms. Even though I scream "DENY! DENY!" as loudly as I can, they keep smacking me in the head and rifling my pockets. You know how it is.
Mac: Actually, I don't. You see, with a Mac...
[One of the worms moves sinisterly toward the Mac. A man in a black suit appears suddenly from the right and collars the worm, shaking it roughly.]
Man In Black Suit: Listen, woim. If you takes one more step taword da Mac kid, I'm gonna whack you and yer whole family, see?
Worm: Uh... uh... I'm just a proof of concept.
MIBS: Concept shmoncept. Not only will I whack you and yer family, I'm going to hack yer blog so bad it'll look like AintItCool.com.
Worm: [panics, runs away, screaming]
MIBS: [Claps hands as though rubbing dirt off. As he leaves to the right, Mac slips him a small paper sack.] Tanks, kid.
Mac: As I was saying, with a Mac, there are no viruses.
Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
You love your computer so much you will kill for it. Of course I'm the same way with hot dogs. Don't mess with my Hebrew Nationals!
You really find it so hard to believe that someone's found a security hole in a piece of software as large as an operating system? It's been done thousands of times before, it's not like there's no precedent to make this difficult to believe.
And you find it hard to believe that a Mac fanboy would issue death threats to someone who is attacking their operating system/Way of Life?
You're just being sarcastic, right?
Macs are equally or less expensive than an equivalent Dell. Why not give me your address and we'll talk this over? Can I have a picture of your children?
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Apple betters Microsoft once more.
Dispatch Tuesday is so much cooler than Patch Tuesday.
From the dictionary
Dispatch == To put to death summarily.
Don't blame apple fans. Look, if Windows had 95% of the market share you'd be reading about this kind of thing all the ti...
oh damn.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
Jesus, you have a tough bullshit meter! Where did you get it? When I heard of Maynor's connection, my bullshit meter just exploded in a bright flash, very loud BANG! and puff of acrid smoke...
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