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Mac Worm Author Gets Death Threats

Posted by kdawson on from the stranger-and-stranger dept.

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.

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  1. Note to self by Ogive17 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't cross a mac fanboy....

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    "Action without philosophy is a lethal weapon; philosophy without action is worthless."
    1. Re:Note to self by vigmeister · · Score: 5, Funny

      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!
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      Atheist: Buddhist in a Prius
    2. Re:Note to self by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

      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?

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      SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
    3. Re:Note to self by jdray · · Score: 5, Funny

      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...

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      The Spoon
      Updated 6/28/2011
    4. Re:Note to self by mulvane · · Score: 5, Funny

      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!

  2. Should have picked a softer target by DrXym · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. Now we know by blueg3 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re:Now we know by RealGrouchy · · Score: 5, Funny

      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>
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      Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
  4. Well That's one way ... by mshmgi · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Sounds familiar.... by MarcoG42 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through.
  6. I can just imagine the news... by mrchaotica · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    "[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz