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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."
squid pro quo
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?
Well, in TFA it mentions it's the first time that anyone in Japan has been charged with "property destruction" for creating a virus. Also, he created all the images himself so he wouldn't get arrested for copyright infringement. Of course, none of this is made clear in the summary, and I think the latter point is more him being a smartass. I thought maybe he was a mis-aimed White Hat, but no, he was collecting the data from the affected computers as well and just hanging onto it. So, I guess that falls under YRO as a general "computer law" issue, but it's kind of an unnecessary story since it's just a guy getting arrested for making a virus. How original!
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.
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...
You manage to obscure the actual content of the story by misdirection and lack of information.
I realize the motivation behind writing 'teaser' articles -- get people to read the full article rather than just the summary.
But it ends up being like Network News
"7 things in your pantry that can give you EBOLA... coming up after these commercials!"
Please stop.
Some might call it "art". Check this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman's_Wife
This is not my sig.
Just FYI, many Japanese geeks were amazed by his "pursuit of quality" shown on Japanese TV news.
[WASTE OF TALENT] On "Excessive quality" of Ika-Tako virus's illustration and character background.
- http://zeark969.blog38.fc2.com/blog-entry-1668.html
Althrough page above is in Japanese, I'd say a picture is worth a thousand words.
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 .