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

Re:Should have picked a softer target

[iknownuttin]

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.

Well,

[Anonymous Coward]

those faggots are sooo melodromatic, what did you expect?

Re:Well That's one way ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Just think how secure Windows would be if Bill Gates focused his vast resources on killing every malware author.

The downside would be a shortage of Linux developers....

Re:Note to self

[obergfellja]

Windows users are use to getting hacked, Linux users can fix the problems. But MAC... there is a fine line between intelligence and insanity. And of course, art is an expression of the inner-self. Mac is known for various art styles. Before you hack a Mac, check the content to ensure that the Mac user shows the intelligence side. (don't get into a huff over this, I am just pointing out stereo-types)

Re:Note to self

[mulvane]

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?
Mix in a little Windows Zealot and we could at least rest assured they would self destruct themselves.

Jesus

[suv4x4]

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

Slashdot: the place where death threats are funny!

Re:Unacceptable

[Ilgaz]

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.