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Plumber Injection Attack In Bowser's Castle
An anonymous reader writes to make sure
everybody
Yoshi
Bullet Bill
Reznor
is aware of Security Advisory SMB-1985-0001: Plumber Injection Attack in Bowser's Castle.
"Ksplice, working in conjunction with Lakitu Cloud Security, has released a high-severity advisory about a Plumber Injection attack in multiple versions of Bowser's Castle. An Italian plumber could
exploit
jump on
headbutt
fireball
this bug to bypass security measures (walk through walls) in order to rescue Peach, to defeat Bowser, or for
unspecified other impact
theft of giant gold coins
consumption of narcotics
vicious attacks on Koopas
. This vulnerability is demonstrated by 'happylee-supermariobros,warped.fm2.' Attacks using this exploit have been observed in the wild, and multiple other exploits are publicly available. A
bouncing star
patch
radioactive flower
Tanooki suit
has been made available."
Are we talking about pipe cleaning?
What about a Swedish Plumber? Or is the difference in meatball consumption important?
I just want my achievement!
...but this has got to be the least-creative April fools article in history. Really, really lame.
It always seem that they are hopped up on mushrooms and screaming that they're running away from "Goombas" or some other ridiculous thing.
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Please STOP with the reading of Slashdot on April Fools' day. You do NOT have a sense of humor.
Pretty good, but I only just logged in this morning (Australia) so I saw them in all in a row.
Plumber injection attack indeed, which reminds me - on topic
http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF213-Mario_Too.jpg
holy crap /., all day , notstop, and not a serious article worthy of discussion.
oh, wait, that's every day around here...
way to go fucking overboard. It would be more sneaky to keep the normal submission queue going and slip a few carefully-crafted ringers into YRO and then watch the resulting 1500-post flamefest.
"fool me once, shame on me. fool me 23 times without respite, fuck you!" hhok...
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I just use the "Mark All Read" feature on my RSS feed.
Great read, but seriously, isn't this news a bit old? I mean we're talking about a product several revisions old. I'm sure in the years since this product was originally published Bowsers had a chance to install additional safeguards to the perimeter. I doubt a single plumber could ever break in now....
This exploit has been known for 25 years, but has never been patched!
(Title is a throwback to a very old game, anyone want to guess?)
Seriously, the first few were good, it was all quite funny.. this one is just... meh.
Can we be finished with this day already?
This is old, but I enjoyed it. 'New Super Mario Bros'. movie trailer.
Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
No, then the next story will come through next week that the law saying basically "every copyrighted word or picture in any form is a felony" will go through Congress except it will be real, and we'll be begging for April Fool's day.
My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine
Did they just make up something random, or could you actually apply the patch to a ROM and "fix" the "bug"?
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I'm an old codger, and even I've upgraded to the 64-bit version.
, and I suspect most people are at least running the 128-bit version, although I've heard it's a downgrade.
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Gotta love April 1st... all the wonderful "news" stories that get posted, just wonderful.
They could have injected it into Bowser's shorts. He would be walking really funny.
Tisha Hayes
O’Brien’s manner became less severe. ... When he spoke his voice was gentle and patient. He had the air of a doctor, a teacher, even a priest, anxious to explain and persuade rather than to punish. ...You have never cured yourself of it, because you did not choose to.... Even now, I am well aware, you are clinging to your disease under the impression that it is a virtue.
“I am taking trouble with you, Winston,” he said, “because you are worth trouble. You know perfectly well what is the matter with you. You have known it for years, though you have fought against the knowledge. You are mentally deranged. You suffer from a defective memory. You are unable to remember real events, and you persuade yourself that you remember other events which never happened.
Now we will take an example. At this moment, which power is Oceania at war with?”
“When I was arrested, Oceania was at war with Eastasia.”
‘With Eastasia. Good. And Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia, has it not?”
Winston drew in his breath. He opened his mouth to speak and then did not speak. He could not take his eyes away from the dial....
“Another example,” [O'Brien] said. “Some years ago you had a very serious delusion indeed. You believed that three
men, three one-time Party members...were not guilty of the crimes they were charged with. You believed that you had seen unmistakable documentary evidence proving that their confessions were false....
“It exists!” he cried.
“No,” said O’Brien.... It does not exist. It never existed.”
“But it did exist! It does exist! It exists in memory. I remember it. You remember it.”
“I do not remember it,” said O’Brien.
Winston’s heart sank. That was doublethink. He had a feeling of deadly helplessness.... Perhaps that lunatic dislocation in the mind could really happen: that was the thought that defeated him.
The intentional result of such interrogation is today's postmodern thinking: no certainty, no truth, no absolute moral standard.... Any new or evolving "truth" is determined by group consensus -- through the Media or through small groups led by a trained facilitator (a nicer version of O'Brien) who creates a safe place and becomes your friend and confidante as well as trainer. Individual thinking is out! Group think is in! Only its synthesis is acceptable!
The Republicans are in bed with big business. The Republicans are Microsoft's bitches - remember that!
And if you're one of those "Social Conservative" morons, get a fucking life! Remember this, you social conservative asshole, the Bible is a book about rape, incest, child pornography, and cannibalism!
So, ban all you want and you'll just be greasing a nice slippery slope to ban all of Christianity and Judaism and Islam!
Goddamn hypocritical assholes!
You'll burn in your own Hell!!
I like the forms control in this one. Oh, and where I live, its already 4:09 PM, and April Fools Day(tm) pranks usually stop at noon. Since I'm only 5 time zones from the international date line, there is only one time zone left where its still before noon (and while its true that there are a number of islands in that time zone, the majority of that zone is Pacific Ocean. Perhaps the time for AFD(tm) jokes should end soon?
Sure I do. An entire site basically offline for an entire day with prosaic, fake stories is not funny. If you thinks so, then it is YOU with the faulty sense of humor, ass-bag.
Ok, why am I getting all these combo boxes in the posts? It's driving me nuts.
Perhaps I'm trolling, perhaps I'm not.
Open Sewer he could have patched these himself years ago.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
no Gottlieb / Premier will make you pay $30+ rom update and use the DMCA to shutdown any giving out the code for free.
For those interested, the provided patch works by loading a fixed value of 1 into register A during the wall ejection routine instead of loading the value in address 0x45. 0x45 keeps track of the way Mario is facing.
So basically, the wall ejection routine kicks in, thinks Mario is facing right (1), and ejects him left (back out of this wall).
(Information collaborated with Ilari of TASvideos and the SMB RAM Map on Data Crystal.)