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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:Should have picked a softer target by iknownuttin · · Score: 0, Troll
    He would have been better off picking a weaker target such Islam. You don't want to mess with those Mac zealots.

    Oh oh! I have these cartoons showing MACs blowing up and Steve Jobs carrying them.

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    I prefer Flambe as apposed flamebait.
  2. Jesus by suv4x4 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Check this out: the first like 10 posts in this article are +5 Funny.

    Slashdot: the place where death threats are funny!

  3. Re:Unacceptable by Ilgaz · · Score: 0, Troll

    It is as if the fanatics actually believed their OS was so secure it had no security holes. About this specific issue (if worm really written), it is NON issue since OS X 10.4.10 update was released back in 21-06-2007 and available free at Apple downloads without any kind of nagging. In fact, internal software update can download/install it with one click. If they (users) don't click couple of things and download at most a 30mb (movie trailer size) package, it is not Apple's fault or platform isn't insecure because of this issue.

    Someone reads Apple CVE/update notes, write a trivial junk which can only allegedly work on local network (big difference from internet on OS X) and talks about it on a blog probably sending his friends to "digg" or something to talk about it.

    The fanatic idiots who are finding this junk credible enough to make "death threats" are a despise to OS X/Mac users like me. You can use pure Mac setup on every occasion, buy lots of software but there is no way escaping them. I agree on that.

    On the other hand, there are companies such as Intego who doesn't give a heck to those fanboys and announce every issue they find. To this time, there is no Intego Antivirus/Firewall update shipped, nothing on "press releases" so they really don't find this credible. These are the guys who didn't care about Apple security updates and kept on removing SETUID of Apple default software for months for additional safety. They also uncovered a major security issue on OS X Finder but their PR department raped the issue by claiming mp3 viruses and so on.