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Many Hackers Accidentally Send Their Code To Microsoft

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-the-brightest-cookie-in-the-shed dept.

joshgnosis writes "When hackers crash Windows in the course of developing malware, they'll often accidentally agree to send the virus code straight to Microsoft, according to senior security architect Rocky Heckman. 'It's amazing how much stuff we get.' Heckman also said Microsoft was a common target for people testing their attacks. 'The first thing [script kiddies] do is fire off all these attacks at Microsoft.com. On average we get attacked between 7000 and 9000 times per second.'"

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  1. ::head shake:: by Pojut · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fucking script kiddies...in MY day, we actually HACKED.

    Wait, I was born in '84...

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    1. Re:::head shake:: by oodaloop · · Score: 5, Funny

      Soooooo should I get off your playground, or what?

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    2. Re:::head shake:: by thousandinone · · Score: 2, Funny

      I was born in 83. Gimme ur lunch money, kid!

    3. Re:::head shake:: by PinkFreud · · Score: 2, Funny

      I was born in 83. Gimme ur lunch money, kid!

      1976. Now get off my lawn.

    4. Re:::head shake:: by interval1066 · · Score: 2, Funny

      '63. Get off of MY lawn.

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    5. Re:::head shake:: by BigBlueOx · · Score: 4, Funny

      '52. Get ... um ... the hell ... ah ... what were we talking about?

    6. Re:::head shake:: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You're not a real hacker unless you've blown a captain crunch whistle into a phone.

    7. Re:::head shake:: by DFurno2003 · · Score: 1, Funny

      You probably cant hear him telling you to get off his moms lawn as sound does not travel out of the basement well.

  2. Re:So then what's with the wait? by Hinhule · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe their servers run Linux?

  3. Re:But by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, that's because they live in basements where windows wouldn't be of any use anyway.

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  4. Re:But by Abstrackt · · Score: 4, Funny

    That explains why they enter through the back door.

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  5. Of course! That's how windows is written. by tekrat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thousands of hackers across the globe send their malware, virii, and trojans to Microsoft, where it is collected, pieced together and compiled. Then MS puts it in a box and calls it an OS.

    If you notice, there is a direct correlation between the number of hackers sending their code to MS and the amount of bloat in each new software package released by MS.

    Another mystery solved! You're welcome.

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    1. Re:Of course! That's how windows is written. by theskipper · · Score: 2, Funny

      Holy crap, my kingdom for a mod point.

  6. The Gist I Got Of The Article by Ukab+the+Great · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hackers and Developers are both lazy. This is why things haven't gotten any worse and also why things haven't gotten any better.

  7. Re:How Does It Encapsulate the Source Code? by Len · · Score: 5, Funny

    RTFA

    But it's all the way in Australia!