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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
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!
Some might call it "art". Check this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman's_Wife
This is not my sig.
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 .