DVD Porn Viruses Ravage US Soldiers' Computers

stevegee58 writes "Tom Ricks' Inbox in the Sunday Washington Post reported that bootleg DVDs purchased in Iraqi markets ('souks') are frequently infected with viruses. Iraqi soldiers were affected as well; electronic interaction between Iraqi and US soldiers frequently resulted in a corresponding exchange of viruses from these infected DVDs."

Comments

Sexually Transmitted Disease

[Thalagyrt]

Gets a whole new meaning now.

Re:Sexually Transmitted Disease

[Devout_IPUite]

So remember, no sex if safe sex, but if you watch sex use Norton!

Re:Sexually Transmitted Disease

[cp.tar]

But seriously, what is the world coming to?

Previously, at least soldiers could count on running around, meeting interesting people, shooting them and raping their women.
Of course, often that also meant some kind of medical treatment afterwards, usually including some nasty shots of penicillin, but that was a small price to pay for the vast spread of one's genetic material.

Nowadays, the only virus you can get as a soldier infects your computer while you jack off to porn?
Really, they shouldn't have gone all the way to Iraq for that.

Re:Sexually Transmitted Disease

[cp.tar]

So remember, no sex if safe sex, but if you watch sex use Norton!

With Norton, you'll still get infected, but the system will slow down just enough that a DVD movie becomes a slideshow.

Re:Sexually Transmitted Disease

[Opportunist]

You wanna say the whole war in Iraq was just a lot of dick waving and mostly a masturbatory experience for a couple people?

Re:Sexually Transmitted Disease

[aplusjimages]

I think they call it STDVD.

Re:Sexually Transmitted Disease

[zacronos]

On a site like this one, where people from the outside would presume everyone is a pasty and pimply 34 year old living in their parent's basement, I really would expect (just a little) a little more tolerance and less assumption from the people involved. You must be new here!

Re:Sexually Transmitted Disease

[cp.tar]

You know, I'm fairly certain (at least I hope so) that you're either joking or just being a troll (in which case, I'm falling directly into your trap),

FWIW, the part that offended you was mostly a joke.

but as (maybe one of the few) people on this site that were also previously in the military, I'm just about as offended as humanly possible at your comment above.

Now you just flatter me. I didn't even mention many things that would offend a much greater number of people, but which would not be funny in the least.

Not everyone that goes into the military is a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal, and quite a few of us are above average in terms of intelligence.

I know quite a number of people of various IQ levels who've been to war. IQ and the ability to commit a war crime are not that related that I'd consider that comment as any kind of explanation.
And their war was much closer to home than yours.

I spent 6 years in the Navy, and I (nor anyone I knew) didn't shoot, rape OR pillage anyone.

Yeah, I've heard quite a lot about seamen.

Sorry, but you really walked into that one. ;)

On a site like this one, where people from the outside would presume everyone is a pasty and pimply 34 year old living in their parent's basement, I really would expect (just a little) a little more tolerance and less assumption from the people involved.

Don't take it all so seriously; beneath the irritating tone of my post there is some relatively sound biology.

Re:Sexually Transmitted Disease

[dotancohen]

out of curiosity, is there a better way to do this?

There is, but it involves a virus-infected DVD and higher authority will find out in the end. I recommend to just keep thinking about your bunkmate's picture of his sister.

Re:Sexually Transmitted Disease

[cp.tar]

Any one of the geeks here could pass it with one hand tied under the desk.

Yes, but we geeks have had lots of practice doing things one-handed, with the other hand tied up with something else under the desk.
Really, it would almost be unfair advantage.

Re:Sexually Transmitted Disease

[MrKaos]

Digital Venereal Disease.

Re:Sexually Transmitted Disease

[cHiphead]

You were not in the Army to take part in the traditional pillaging and raping fun, you were stuck in teh Navy and had to contend with vying for a bukakke session one of the 3 ladies onboard or cuddling with your fellow seamen.

You Navy boys never catch a break.

Sorry I couldn't resist. ;)

Cheers.

Re:Sexually Transmitted Disease

[Frosty Piss]

The solution is obvious: US Government Certified Porn. We must protect our troops. The San Fernando Valley Chamber of Commerce will go along with it...

They should also develop a holographic seal of approval.

Re:Sexually Transmitted Disease

[Maxo-Texas]

And the olny weigh to fix a p

Re:Sexually Transmitted Disease

[hummassa]

You wanna say the whole war in Iraq was just a lot of dick waving and mostly a masturbatory experience for a couple people? Are you saying it isn't??

Re:Sexually Transmitted Disease

[Maxo-Texas]

And the only way to fix a post where you made a mistake is to repost it.

Rootkits

[adpsimpson]

Are these the old Sony disks they're talking about?

Not worth it

[Hyppy]

From personal experience, believe me, Iraqi porn isn't worth it.

Re:Not worth it

[gwayne]

Dhakmi does Mosel!

Iraqi Man 1: Would you get a load of the slit in her burka! I think I saw an eye!

Iraqi Man 2: Oh yeah, baby, put it on! More burka!

Iraqi Man 3: Halalalalalalalala...BOOM!

Re:Not worth it

[Anonymous Coward]

Was Family Guy referring to the time pre the 2002 English porn liberalisation? Those Limey script writers moved to Los Angeles years ago. And at least english/euro pron doesn't have their genitals mutilated like US pron does.

Protection

[jspenguin1]

The shift key: the condom of the Windows world.

Re:Protection

[maxume]

It's a bit of a stretch to call this the most critical of situations.

Also, I believe that PromiscuOS is somewhat less secure than Windows.

Re:Protection

[jps25]

What OS you run DOES NOT = LESS or MORE security at this point from an OS architectual standpoint unless you have an older OS without security inherently designed at the core level. (Like Win9x, OS/2, System 9 earlier) I really enjoyed how you were able to type four paragraphs, but were unable to type "equal".

It's also marvelous how you emphasized every other word.
"Cool it Shatner, we don't read in the same voice you speak." (maddox)

Summary full of WIN

[Gothmolly]

"Iraqi soldiers are affected as well."

Wow, a porn virus that can make the jump from DVD to human?

Re:Support Our troops

[neokushan]

This is going to take a while...

Don't they have Internet connections over there?

[aliquis]

Because as we all know Internet is for porn.

MPAA defends US

[kidsizedcoffin]

This must have been what they had in mind when the movie studios insisted on strict region coding on DVD's, they had our best interest in mind all along.

Re:Support Our troops

[Nimey]

Send them individual socks, too. Keeps things tidy.

Practice safe souks!

[Anarchofascist]

..and you won't get infected. This has been a health and safety message from your friendly neighborhood anarchist.

Imaginative approach

[Lincolnshire Poacher]

• +10 points for clever attack vector.
• +10 points for using a vector which is deeply embarrassing to the target.
• +10 points for SELLING a virus to the target.

Queue the

[Fnord666]

Queue the camel jokes in 3...2...1..

There's some good news here...

[Anonymous Coward]

The good news being that the Iraqis are getting porn.

Getting the people of Iraq and Afghanistan watching soap operas or porn is valuable in winding down the religious conservatism in these countries.

Patton Meets Pr0N

[Dystopian Rebel]

"You don't win a war by jacking off for your country. You win a war by making the other bastard jack off for ~his~ country!"

Hold on...

[wobbelyheadbob]

I thought supporting piracy was supporting terrorism, so if U.S. troops are buying pirate dvd's (in Iraq of all places) doen't that mean U.S. troops are supporting terrorism??

Re:Is nothing sacred?!

[Harlockjds]

>I support the troops. I'm getting a troop support rebate check this month, too!

I support the troops sooooo much that i don't qualify for a troop support rebate check

OT: What is this world coming to?

[thePowerOfGrayskull]

What is this world coming to when even 7-digiters are able to mod?!

Re:OT: What is this world coming to?

[Lunatrik]

What is this world coming to when even 7-digiters are able to mod?!
You have no idea. I mod up everything that has to do with Ballmer throwing chairs, Gotse, ?? Profit, and FIRST POST, while making sure to mod down anything with substance. I considered, albeit briefly, modding with dignity, but then I saw that 7 digit number and realized.. neh, screw it.

Re:OT: What is this world coming to?

[StreetStealth]

Whatever, mr. high six digits!

Re:Support Our troops

[d3ac0n]

Sounds like someone in the Porn community that supports the troops could set up a very interesting charity.

I can see it now: "Support the troops, send them quality American porn!"

There could be shots of porn stars dressed like 1940's pinup stars in the ads for the charity.

The name might be tough though... "Skin for the Soldiers", "Tits for the Troops"? I'm sure we could come up with something interesting.

Anyone here have contacts at Vivid Entertainment? Let's get this baby rolling!

Re:Support Our troops

[drinkypoo]

Let's see, 1x is 1.2MB/sec peak, that's 20833 times the write rate, and 1x is about 580 RPM (for a CD anyway, I would assume it's the same for a DVD, but you how how dangerous that is.) Anyway, if they are the same that's about 12083140 RPM. Most discs weigh about 15 grams and have a diameter of 12cm. According to http://www.botlanta.org/converters/dale-calc/flywheel.html that's about 0.05 joules of energy (a joule is a newton-meter) whereas as 20833 times the speed, that's 21620375.64 joules. Just to put that in perspective, it's over six kilowatt-hours. Even with six lasers (and thus at 1/6 speed) it's still a kilowatt-hour's worth of energy... Given that the fastest hard disks operate at about 30 or 40MB/sec peak, I think we have a ways to go :)

Re:How does it work?

[Fred_A]

Just because your run Linux doesn't give you the right to make fun of others.

Re:Moderators w/o a Sense of Humor

[Fifty Points]

I have mod points, but I'm not touching this thread with a ten foot pole. :/

Re:Moderators w/o a Sense of Humor

[dgatwood]

No, no, you got the joke all wrong! You used an article where you should have used a possessive pronoun.

I have mod points, but I'm not touching this thread with my ten foot pole.

Cyber warfare

[Fuzzums]

We could have known that porn would be a key weapon in cyber warfare ;)

Re:Support Our troops

[Chris Burke]

Just because it's not an officaly army sanctioned activity doesn't mean there's not an army way of doing things.

Mental Image You Didn't Need For Today: A bunch of Privates standing around in a circle-jerk, with their Sargent calling out a cadence.

Re:Moderators w/o a Sense of Humor

[cp.tar]

No, no, you got the joke all wrong! You used an article where you should have used a possessive pronoun.

I have mod points, but I'm not touching this thread with my ten foot pole.

I wouldn't touch it with yours, either.

Please support the troops

[NotBornYesterday]

Folks,

It appears clear to me what we must do. I believe it would be difficult to find a group of people with a larger aggregate porn collection, or larger distributed array of DVD burners, than we who read slashdot. So let's get busy archiving our porn onto DVDs and send them such a vast quantity of smut, no poor GI will have to resort to the virus-infected local stuff over there.

Remember, you don't necessarily need to be an American partiot, you just need to be kinda pervy.

new weapon of terror

[Anonymous Coward]

IED = Infected Erection Disc

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