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.

Comments

Note to self

[Ogive17]

Don't cross a mac fanboy....

Re:Note to self

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

Don't cross a mac fanboy....

Amen Brother - I would never do that ;-)

Re:Note to self

[vigmeister]

Amen Brother - I would never do that ;-) Yeah... Once the Church of Apple declares you an SP, there is no escape for you since it is alright for them to "keep you down" and eliminate you. Of course, in the CoA, SP stands for 'Sensible Person' :)

P.S. Oh! my god! The zipper on my flamesuit is STUCK! I'm so getting burnt.

Cheers!

Re:Note to self

[elrous0]

Does this mean I should end my genetic experiment to cross-pollinate a Mac fanboy with a Scientologist to produce the world's most pompous asshole?

Re:Note to self

[jdray]

KDE vs. GNOME?! Graphical user environments?! Kids these days! Back in my day, all we had was the good ol' fashioned vi vs. emacs argument, which I would like to point out to you is still going. I tell you what, that baby has stamina. None of these high-falutin' graphics and acronyms of capitalized letters, no, our flamewars were all lower case, the way they should be. We were so busy arguing, we didn't have time for shifting cases.

And all this business about Windows versus MacOS versus Linux? What has this world come to? All we had to argue over was OS/400 versus VMS. And the computers weren't even ours. We had to steal time on them from the neighbors, in the middle of the night when they weren't looking. And we had to sneak our terminal cables through their open windows, standing on snowdrifts in our bare feet. We couldn't afford shoes, because we spent all our money on our one lone screen. And it wasn't even 132 columns...

Re:Note to self

[mulvane]

Least you had night!!! In Alaska, we had to do it in broad daylight half the year!! And our nearest neighbor was a snowdrift away!! You ever see a snowdrift in Alaska? Size of Deleware they are!

Re:Note to self

[supun]

> Don't cross a mac fanboy....

Actually you can, just stay outside of a 1 mile radius of all Starbucks and you'll be safe.

Re:Note to self

[elrous0]

Last year I saw the bravest man in America. He was walking down the street in broad daylight wearing a Dallas Cowboys jacket over a Yankees t-shirt. Random people were just walking up to him and punching him.

Re:Note to self

[HAKdragon]

...it would be a slashdork living in his mother's basement.

It's called the Painkeep, thank you very much!

Should have picked a softer target

[DrXym]

He would have been better off picking a weaker target such Islam. You don't want to mess with those Mac zealots.

Re:Should have picked a softer target

[elrous0]

Of course they're blowing up. They contracted their battery design out to Sony.

Now we know

[blueg3]

Now we know the real reason there is less malware for the Macintosh.

Re:Now we know

[RealGrouchy]

Security by malware author assassination?

Hey, if it works... I'm buying a Mac.

There's MS's problem right there. They need to develop a chair that is fatal when thrown.

- RG>

Well That's one way ...

[mshmgi]

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.

Re:Well That's one way ...

[Sparks23]

Ballmer would probably do the dirty work cheap ... just for the thrill of it all.

It's all about the assassins, assassins, assassins, assassins, assassins, assassins, assassins... assassins, assassins, assassins...

Sounds familiar....

[MarcoG42]

Wasn't there some stories about religious zealots threating professors who taught evolution recently? It all begins to make sense now...

The New Ad

[Dystopian Rebel]

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.

Dispatch Tuesday

[Frankie70]

Apple betters Microsoft once more.

Dispatch Tuesday is so much cooler than Patch Tuesday.

From the dictionary
Dispatch == To put to death summarily.

I can just imagine the news...

[mrchaotica]

Police find suspected malware author Fucking Killed(TM) in his apartment

Dateline: Redmond, WA

Police today are baffled by the scene discovered in the home of Grigori Kuznetsov, a young programmer from the former Soviet Union. The unfortunate fellow had not only been apparently murdered via blunt trauma to the head, but his chest had been ripped open and the heart removed. The only clues left at the scene were the broken remains of a chair and an "impossibly large" pool of sweat.

When questioned, neighbors reported hearing some strange noises the night before. "It sounded almost like someone yelling 'developers! developers! developers! developers!'," Bob, who lives directly below Grigori, said. "My wife [Ms. Bob] also says she heard a weird scream, like "Yeeearrrgghhhh!" Another resident of the complex, a barber who identified himself by his nickname, "Clippy," reported seeing a bald, ape-like creature running away from the scene. "I think it was Sasquatch," Clippy said. "By the way, it looks like you're trying to investigate a murder. Can I help you with that?"

So far, police say there are no real leads. "From the evidence and testimony given by the witnesses," the detective in charge, Paul Allen, says, "it seems like some kind of supernatural vicious beast attacked the poor guy, beat him to death with a chair, and then ripped his heart out and ate it. But of course, that's impossible."

Readers with any information or leads should contact the Redmond police department.