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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. Re:I can just imagine the news... by toadlife · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hey! That's the perfect modern-day remake of The Murders in the Rue Morgue.

    "...this hair is most unusual --this is no human hair."

    --
    I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.