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Got Malware? The FBI Wants It
wiredmikey writes "The FBI has placed malware on its shopping list, and is turning to third parties to help the agency build a massive library of malicious software. According to a 'Request for a Quote' posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website, the FBI is looking for price quotes for malware for the Investigative Analysis Unit of the agency's Operational Technology Division (OTD). The unit's mission is to 'Provide technical analysis of digital methods, software and data, and provide technical support to FBI investigations and intelligence operations that involve computers, networks and malicious software,' according to the document. The FBI did not say precisely how the malware will be used, but the document calls the collection of malware from law enforcement and research sources "critical to the success of the IAU's mission to obtain global awareness of malware threat.""
Twice. Will not come back with beta.
The FBI wants some of the worst, most vile, malicious, terrible crap on the internet.
Yet even they don't want Slashdot Beta.
The best thing about UDP jokes is I don't care if you get them or not
I have been reading Slashdot since 1997 or thereabouts. Every single day after 1998; of that I am sure. Even when I went out on vacation; when I got married; when I was convalescing after angioplasty- when I returned to work; I would read every single article; and if interested; the comments as well.
Some days back, I stumbled onto Slashdot Beta; I felt it sucked, so I came back to the old design. Today when I open any article; the only comments I find are those complaining about Beta. I use Opera for the past 14 years; so I couldn't understand why many readers found it difficult to just get back to Classic.
Then I started Firefox and opened Slashdot in that. I just couldn't believe the shit I was seeing. The main storythere was about the New Zealand Spy Agency. I carefully looked for 3 more recent stories; and couldnt find them at all. The reason was simple: the top 3 stories were disguised as ads; bcos that's how ads look in the regular site.
Then I clicked on those stories and tried to comment. Firefox went into a never-ending loop; I waited for 7 minutes, and killed the browser. I gave up on the beta.
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The reasons I visit Slashdot are:
1% - to look at the ads; and click on them
5% - to read the stories
3% - to read the linked artices
the rest - to read tons of Insightful comments from fellow Slashdotters
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But in the Beta; I couldn't even get to the Comments section on my 6-yr old Compaq laptop after 10 minutes. So I went back to Opera and Classic Slashdot. Already the Snowden article had comments cursing Beta. So I prepared this post in Notepad.
From now on, I will try for First Post with this one; in every new article.
Slashdotters I admire very much; and we are very successful people as a rule; minus of course the paid shills. I am sure I will keep this up and burn my karma until everyone else including those not fortunate enough to be using Opera; also stop complaining; and Beta goes away. Like Vista Shitsta; Millennium and Microsoft Bob.
Cheers.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
..coding samples. They are jealous of the NSA capability, and want some (lots) of their own.
"Cock Up Your Beaver" does not mean what you think. This sig is intended to clog filters and annoy do-gooders
Beta Sucks.
The slashdot community doesn't want it.
It makes the site harder to use. The user becomes angry and upset and decides that they'd rather spend their time elsewhere. That's what happens when a PC gets hosed up by garbage and that's what will happen if SlashDice gets hosed up by garbage.
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
Not as I do. Because we can trust the US would never use malicious software as against another country/organization... Also does the website accept malware that has made slashdot unusable?
Please post this to new articles if it hasn't been posted yet.
On February 5, 2014, Slashdot announced through a javascript popup that they are starting to "move in to" the new Slashdot Beta design.
Slashdot Beta is a trend-following attempt to give Slashdot a fresh look, an approach that has led to less space for text and an abandonment of the traditional Slashdot look. Much worse than that, Slashdot Beta fundamentally breaks the classic Slashdot discussion and moderation system.
If you haven't seen Slashdot Beta already, open this [slashdot.org] in a new tab. After seeing that, click here [slashdot.org] to return to classic Slashdot.
We should boycott stories and only discuss the abomination that is Slashdot Beta until Dice abandons the project.
We should boycott slashdot entirely during the week of Feb 10 to Feb 17 as part of the wider slashcott [slashdot.org]
Moderators - only spend mod points on comments that discuss Beta
Commentors - only discuss Beta
http://slashdot.org/recent [slashdot.org] - Vote up the Fuck Beta stories
Keep this up for a few days and we may finally get the PHBs attention.
Captcha: fuckbeta
http://developers.slashdot.org... [slashdot.org]
http://developers.slashdot.org... [slashdot.org]
http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... [slashdot.org]
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Authority questions you. Return the favor. -- d474
Furthermore, I think the beta /. must be destroyed.
It will be better to purchase from an owner who is a good farmer and a good builder.
I mean - maybe the PHBs with access to the stats might know better, but this always struck me as a fairly stable site. Internet newcomers tend to gravitate towards Reddit, and the old folks who hate change have remained with /.
Who is Beta for? The old folks don't want it, and you can't seriously expect to draw new users with a site that looks like every other Web2.0 site out there. Is it just a transparent ploy to increase advertising space?
Seriously - WHY?!
Last post!
Do not welcome our new beta overlords...
That is all.
If we're lucky they won't give it back.
I don't get it. i followed the classic link and when i go now to http://slashdot.com/ i get the classic site.
so what's all the fuzz about?
also: i hope the fbi is testing all the malware on their office computers
So far, I'm thinking kuro5hin.org is the best hope out there. Most of the other tech news sites just don't have a clue about how to manage comments, a bit like the Slashdot Beta.
I've been reading slashdot since the 90s, but this really is the end. Apart from the godawful beta, we've also had the attempt to convert the stories into slashvertisements en masse, and the Slashdot Polls are really starting to look like Facebook covert demographics research for the Dice marketing dept.
Taco and Hemos were really cool guys, I'm glad they were able to cash in.
I clicked the link, but it is only a picture that is not uglier than slashdot beta.
`echo $[0x853204FA81]|tr 0-9 ionbsdeaml`@gmail.com
Do you think Dice.com is purposely forcing Slashdot Beta on us in order to generate more comments? It may piss off the whole user base, but it will temporarily boost the websites value to advertisers and then the executives can all quickly cash out of the company.
For the time being you can do this: www.slashdot.org?nobeta=1
Make you voice heard here:
http://beta.slashdot.org/fireh...
To quote Steve Jobs (rip) - "..and one more thing.."
"..FUCK BETA..."
The cookie that forces Slashdot Beta on people!
But when I do, it's to protest Slashdot Beta. Been on slashdot in one form or another since 2000. If Slashdot Beta is pushed to me, the final end date will be Feb 2014. All of the news here can be gotten from my RSS reader, and is all of the articles are there anyways from the original sources. Everytime a new news sources is linked to by Slashdot, it goes into my RSS feed. I go to Slashdot for the community, even if I don't comment. Take that away, all I need is my RSS feed that I already have.
The FBI's top 10 malware packages in full:
10. Conficker
9. Zeus
8. Melissa
7. LOVEYOU
6. Ask toolbar
5. Windows 8
4. Stoned
3. Stuxnet
2. Cryptolocker
1. Slashdot Beta
I like watching a trainwreck sometimes. I love the ol Slashdot, and hate beta. I stuck around on the Digg corporate site laughing at their demise... Up until Digg.com started feeding viruses into its feed. Then I just did 100% reddit.com.
God spoke to me
Remember that time when Google went with a whole new opening page that added all sorts of stuff no one uses?
What about when Drudge Report decided to abandon their highly successful stripped down site for an MSN style just because they wanted to?
Or when McDonalds decided to start making the big mac with gouda and a pretzel bun?
For the love of all things nerdy, stop screwing with things! It not your interface that's causing a drop in traffic, it's your content. So what do you do? You change the interface to something horrible and keep the crappy ad-sponsored shill content? Brilliant!
If you're hoping to become unemployed cause all this work stuff is just too much, keep going.
From the article - By the time the FBI would be able to fully analyze and index malware, it would be for purely historical documentation. By the end of an analysis, the malware would likely no longer have major influence. If that's the case, just buy any old honeypot that never been cleaned off.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
they have all you need! for free.
More than I trust the /. beta.
I am a long slashdot member, I don't usually post comments as I prefer reading them, but one look at the new BETA site caused me to break my habit.
The new BETA sucks shit!
- I've been a frequent visitor to Reddit, I don't go there anymore after their version 4 redesign which was as bad as the new Slashdot BETA!
- I've been forced to read Slashdot through this abomination of a mobile version of the site on my tablet. Thankfully I've been able to revert to Slashdot classic.
- If I am forced to read slashdot through this unholy thing that is the BETA, I will do Reddit and stop reading Slashdot altogether.
So, seriously FUCK BETA
I am fully prepared to join the boycott that is planned for February 10-17, please KILL BETA.
Hey guys, get an account with VirusTotal.com like all the other malware researchers.
Honestly.... Just hire some dudes for min wage. Have them install whatever crap they come across on the internet. Just goto every shady site out there and click on everything with no AV installed and no NAT/firewall.
Buy a bunch of games and install all of the nocd cracks.
Goto every warez site out there and download install and run the games once.
You will quickly become part of a bot net and probably have every viri out there in short order.
Also beta sucks :) SD is missing the fact its core audience is the comment section. The new comment section is too narrow and you have to scroll to much to see things. But hey the designers said white space is good, right?
When I see the beta page loading, I close it before it even has a chance. I like slashdot and have been a reader since it was called "chips and dips", but I think I have finally found a reason to leave.
Everyone hates the new site. Figure it out or you will die.
Does software to allow the use of homemade software on a video game console, such as Smash Stack and the Homebrew Channel for Wii, count as malware?
Fuck beta. Way to ruin everything good about Slashdot.
But if you report it to the government, then you have two problems. Smart move!
nice one dude.
Sir, the package for You has already been delivered...
You don't have to ask for malware. Just go to your relatives and look on their computers.
(Failing that, just surf around the web and anytime a website asks you to install something, do it.)
Coder's Stone: The programming language quick ref for iPad
This is a refreshing change. We no longer have top to bottom posts extolling Edward Snowden's leaks.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
http://www.slashcode.com/www.slashcode.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/
food for thought: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SlashDot
Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.-rms
Certainly they are not masochistic enough to have tried using it.
I mean... come on. They're FBI. Not retards.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Whaaa, I can not find a single comment on topic ; only rants about the new UI. I didn't know slashdot was the last lair for neo-conservatives punks.
We may have left the lynx browser users by the wayside... but future is coming on guys \o/
Corrected headline ..
If the FBI wants to get malware without spending a lot of money, buy a couple windoze computers and put them on the internet without any firewall or virus protection whatsoever. Wait about 15,000 milliseconds (longer if you're on dialup ;-). You will now have a collection of malware to investigate.
Enjoy.
Permanent Classic Style here on /. http://ask.slashdot.org/commen... as long as it exists. If I need to change, that's just as easy, just in reverse. I used to hate the forum posting tree style here. I got used to it now though after 10 years here though I still hate the easily sockpuppet and cookie + logout minus moderate and troll by anonymous coward trolls that cheat the so called moderation system. I don't hate the beta slashdot site. I just deal with it and yet I do wonder why fix a watch that runs? I prefer the old reliable I am used to, so that's why I did what's in the link.
The only malware I have to give the FBI is a pair of my dirty underwear which I've worn for about three or four days without showering while hiking in the desert in the summer time with a bad case of hemorrhoids. However, the Slashdot BETA would be a good second choice. It stinks almost as much as my dirty underwear.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
1. They want to add to their bag of "tricks". Sure, they might learn something. 2. See what people send. Maybe they want to learn about what is causing problems on people's machines. Or, last but not least - 3. See what people don't send. The malware that people don't give to the FBI that they know about is what is really causing problems on people's machines. They just don't know about it.
Malware; it's not just for your average spoiled brat 10 year old nuisance kid anymore, it's peaked the interest in your local FBI agents that also seem to share the spoiled brat quality. So what does a library of malware have to do with national security? The interesting part of this would be the FBI picking and using the malware title against a target of an investigation that virus scanning engines are not focused upon at a given time, pretty sure they could socially engineer that part just like the NSA did with RSA, they'll just pay for it with their bitcoin stash. This is the result of gubberment living beyond it's means with deficit spending.
Lets just trust that the Feds would never abuse our help. That this isn't an effort on their part to examine malware in order to build better malware, or an effort to see what malware that we are able to detect to better help them build malware that we can't detect. After all, have they ever abused our trust in the past?
I already sent them mine. Heck, it's already on a good 2/3rds of their computers. How much more do they want, anyways?
And Agent Robinson, get your feet off of your desk and get to work, slacker!
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
now run slashdot
rob malda is out fucking a goat somewhere
I would happily give them some malware... if they aren't picky on how I deliver it.
AND Slashdot get rid of this "beta" crap that requires javascript to view comments.
Thought I might comment on topic .......
Just leave a windows 8 PC connected to the net, you can get loads of malware installed in a day, ready for testing the next time you reboot !
I think I saw an advertisement for windows 8, OEM edition, for $110, with free shipping! But with the House of Representitives being so enlightened, and frugal, I think any Special Agent could go to closest secretary and ask to use the computer next.
There's 80G of free malware RIGHT THERE.
I've emailed them... they ignore... the more they ignore the quicker their downfall.
Ignore your userbase, and you shall have none. If I am ignored much longer, I will leave. Just like I left mashable after their AOL'ed it.
PS. I've been a slashdotter for 7+ years.
No trees were killed in the making of this post; however, many trillions of electrons were horribly inconvenienced.
Who is going to be the first to send them a copy of Windows?
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
I am hoping that if I'm ever going to be modded +5, Insightful it will be for this:
The new beta is poor at best and I hope that it is put down sooner than later.
Why is the FBI soliciting malware when they already have source licenses for Microsoft?