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Ikatako Virus Replaces Victims' Files With Pictures of Squid
An anonymous reader writes "Ikatako is a virus that spreads through Japanese P2P network Winny, aided by the pirates' lack of wit. Once downloaded and run, the virus sends their data to a central server and replaces it with cephalopod and cnidarian imagery. Japanese hacker (and virus creator) Masato Nakatsuji thought he wouldn't be arrested this time. However, Japanese police considered the files in Japanese pirates' hard drives to be more important than his manga depictions of octopods and other tentacled fauna."
Screw Japan, free cephalopods!
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
squid pro quo
The quality of this alleged cephalopod manga is clearly relevant to how serious a crime this is. We need to see these pictures before we can make a judgment.
Can you imagine the shock when you open your porn folder to find it's all tentacles... err, I mean, can you imagine the shock when somebody who doesn't post on /. opens their porn folder to find it's all tentacles?
I suspect that P.Z. Myers hired him or one of his minions of the Pharyngula hoard
insane, they TALK about an image in this so called story instead of displaying it!
Ok, here are some pictures to make the story worth the 5 minutes /. is going to waste on it.
You can't handle the truth.
True, but he also installed also pics of sea urchins, who are the enemy in the Great Invertebrate War.
Everything was going swimmingly until he got hooked, line and sinker by the police who smelt something fishy. I wonder if he was acting on behalf of Sid The Squida thieving octopus who was released early last year from NZ.
Waiting for the other shoe to...
If only we could send black hats, virus writers and script kiddies everywhere to Japan for proper sorting and disposal.
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
I had no idea tentacle porn was so old.
We are doomed.
You backwards Western barbarian, while your ancestors were still painting themselves blue and living in caves, sexual perversion was already running rampant in Asian societies .
The first time I encountered this strange behavior, it was with a Japanese girlfriend. If I asked her to do something and she didn't want to, she would offer a reason why not. And after addressing the concern, she would come up with another reason why not. Eventually, I would get to the core reason(s) why not, but only after persistently digging into the issue.
What place of earth do you live on where women do tell you immediately the core reason behind whatever they refuse to do? Seriously.