In particular, the fact that it has "CodeRedII" inside means that it couldn't possibly be the original worm -- the name wasn't attached until after it was released.
If this beast is truely wicked, it will scan assorted websites such as Slashdot, Wired, etc, and as soon as it will see talk about itself it will enter its active phase...
> Now, if I was the FBI and wanted to make sure this case stuck, I would have sent an undercover agent to offer to buy/borrow/copy the illegal contraband before making an arrest.
Wouldn't that be entrapment? Or does this concept not apply when dealing with foreign nationals?
Re:Is better TV definition needed ?
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> Why doe one need to make a computer out Concrete?
Hey, that "concrete computer" article was a joke, and was never intended to be taken seriously. Noticed the foot icon near the story?
HDTV may be a joke too, but certainly has not been intended that way by its designers...
... you know what you have to do. Walk to your friendly neighbourhood police office, and file a criminal complaint against AZ-Graphics Co. for trafficking in fraudulent fair-use locked software. If enough such complaints are received, the police has to act in one way or another.
Errhm, you might as well make the magic word "the", or let the second phase start immediately. Indeed, considering how many viruses are out there, it would be hard to avoid triggering the new virus by talk about other virii...
Re:THE WORLD MUST KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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> Formally, perhaps, but in practise prime ministers and presidents have become more and more autocratic. They've got the unquestioning support of their majority party, because a member of a party cannot vote according to his/her will but always has to vote for the proposals of the party.
Moreover, in many countries voting against the ratification of an already signed treaty means dissolving the government. And no party is going to dissolve its own government on a whim.
> all one would have to do would be put some unique, memorable name or catchphrase somewhere within their infection/payload scheme.
... and hope that the anti-virus community names the thing before they reverse-engineer it sufficiently enough to find out what triggers the active phase... Man, would they look stoopid if they named it the "catch me now" virus, and as soon as news about it hit the major outlets, its very name would trigger armageddon...
> Simple solution - the virus should scan Wired for its name every hour. When it finds a match, the fun begins.
Good idea... but who assigns virus names? It was my understanding that the names under which a virus is known is usually not chosen by the author, but by the anti-virus community once it is "discovered". Thus, it would be rather hard to scan for its name, as it will not be known at the time of writing...
> anyway, one stupid thing is that all the reports call it "privacy" sensitive because it sends out personal documents from your drive... but from all the stuff I received over the weekend, I noticed it's just the name of the document it uses... the actual content is the virus itself; an executable disguised as a document...
I dunno about this virus, but the Magistr virus only mails out full documents with a certain (low) probability. I.e. most of this virus' mails will just use the title of the document, or small extracts as the mail subject, but every now and then, a full.doc attachment would be sent out. Probability of this happening is very low, but not zero.
The interesting thing about this is that it gives "cover" to disgruntled employees who wish to deliberately leak confidential stuff to suppliers or to competitors: as the virus exists, and its modus operandi is "well known", those people now have an easy excuse ready if they're caught. Quite a cunning move of the virus writer actually!
> They can't do anything *too* malicious without calling enough attention to it that the spreading slows down.
Actually, there is a simple cure to this, and it has even been used by Code Red: operate in two phases:
A spreading phase, where you don't do anything malicious, except infect other machines. Best if done as low-key as possible: only attempt to infect those people that use Outlook (analize headers of recently received mails), attach yourself to documents that the user sends, rather than making up documents of your own, etc.
An active phase, where the fun really starts: DOS the withehouse, mail out confidential.doc files, thrash the BIOS and hard disk, etc.
The difficult part of course is timing. If the active phase starts too early, you may not have enough of an "installed base" to really wreak havoc. And if it starts too late, a cure may already exist by then.
Re:It's indeed a map of Italy, with great details!
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Sorry, make that 28%.
It's indeed a map of Italy, with great details!
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> The second image where he is lying down with blood pouring of his head clearly draws a map of Italy, Cicily and Corsique.
Wow, indeed! Although I think it's supposed to be Sardiny rather than Corsique (Corsique belongs to France, not Italy).
Now, check this against Mapquest, and be amazed at the level of details of the forgery! If you rotate the picture of the bloodstain by 90 degrees to the left, and scale it up by 13.7%, it almost exactly matches the map!
Don't forget we are speaking about Windows machines here, and those are notoriosly bad at managing such "advanced" concepts as timezones. Just whitness the bi-yearly mess that occurs whenever we switch daylight savings time. Windows machines usually run their clock in local time, and have no such concept as location-independant UTC time.
> example: That Athlon chip is just sand (silicon) and very small trace amounts of inpurities, ordered via IP into a way that makes it of greater value than the equivalent weight of sand.
Except that it still costs a significant amount of money to "re-arrange" that sand in such a way as to become an Athlon. You know, even though processors become much cheaper once the research (IP) is amortized, they do not become completely free either. It takes quite a little bit more effort to make an Athlon than to write your name (or even your price essay...) in the sand.
> bitch at the girl running the register because they were charged tax and they don't think they should be) is that, by nature, they're assholes,
Or maybe it's because they're foreigners. Indeed, everywhere else in the world, except the US and maybe Canada, sales tax is already included in the displayed sales price...
Hey, the CCTV cameras pointing at the bench are not meant to stop vandalism. Or at least not that kind of vandalism. Their real purpose is to take pix of people who are naive enough to think they could haxor under the cover of the bench's "anonymity".
> That's sounds like a great idea, but what if I decide to connect my iBook up to it, and proceed to hax0r the gibson? Surely, they would have to set up some kind of surveilance so that the park bench doesn't become "uber hax0r HQ".
> Then, they have the ethical question of cameras in public to deal with,...
You can bet that one of these cameras is pointing right at that bench. If you haxor from that bench, you're photo will be up on the evening news...
Toysmart (in your link) was a for-profit company. However, the scary part is that this shit can happen to non-profits too:
Scientology's revenge, or How scientology drove the Cult Awareness Network into bankruptcy, and seized its assets (including highly confidential case information and member lists).
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If this beast is truely wicked, it will scan assorted websites such as Slashdot, Wired, etc, and as soon as it will see talk about itself it will enter its active phase...
Wouldn't that be entrapment? Or does this concept not apply when dealing with foreign nationals?
Hey, that "concrete computer" article was a joke, and was never intended to be taken seriously. Noticed the foot icon near the story?
HDTV may be a joke too, but certainly has not been intended that way by its designers...
... you know what you have to do. Walk to your friendly neighbourhood police office, and file a criminal complaint against AZ-Graphics Co. for trafficking in fraudulent fair-use locked software. If enough such complaints are received, the police has to act in one way or another.
Errhm, you might as well make the magic word "the", or let the second phase start immediately. Indeed, considering how many viruses are out there, it would be hard to avoid triggering the new virus by talk about other virii...
Moreover, in many countries voting against the ratification of an already signed treaty means dissolving the government. And no party is going to dissolve its own government on a whim.
Good idea... but who assigns virus names? It was my understanding that the names under which a virus is known is usually not chosen by the author, but by the anti-virus community once it is "discovered". Thus, it would be rather hard to scan for its name, as it will not be known at the time of writing...
I dunno about this virus, but the Magistr virus only mails out full documents with a certain (low) probability. I.e. most of this virus' mails will just use the title of the document, or small extracts as the mail subject, but every now and then, a full .doc attachment would be sent out. Probability of this happening is very low, but not zero.
The interesting thing about this is that it gives "cover" to disgruntled employees who wish to deliberately leak confidential stuff to suppliers or to competitors: as the virus exists, and its modus operandi is "well known", those people now have an easy excuse ready if they're caught. Quite a cunning move of the virus writer actually!
Actually, there is a simple cure to this, and it has even been used by Code Red: operate in two phases:
- A spreading phase, where you don't do anything malicious, except infect other machines. Best if done as low-key as possible: only attempt to infect those people that use Outlook (analize headers of recently received mails), attach yourself to documents that the user sends, rather than making up documents of your own, etc.
- An active phase, where the fun really starts: DOS the withehouse, mail out confidential
.doc files, thrash the BIOS and hard disk, etc.
The difficult part of course is timing. If the active phase starts too early, you may not have enough of an "installed base" to really wreak havoc. And if it starts too late, a cure may already exist by then.Sorry, make that 28%.
Wow, indeed! Although I think it's supposed to be Sardiny rather than Corsique (Corsique belongs to France, not Italy).
Now, check this against Mapquest, and be amazed at the level of details of the forgery! If you rotate the picture of the bloodstain by 90 degrees to the left, and scale it up by 13.7%, it almost exactly matches the map!
Apparently, they still do... just watch that weird "slamming" analogy that they use...
Why not sue NetSol for trademark infringement if they don't let go of your domain name?
Quick, please post the name/address of your company, I want some free cash too!
Don't forget we are speaking about Windows machines here, and those are notoriosly bad at managing such "advanced" concepts as timezones. Just whitness the bi-yearly mess that occurs whenever we switch daylight savings time. Windows machines usually run their clock in local time, and have no such concept as location-independant UTC time.
Except that it still costs a significant amount of money to "re-arrange" that sand in such a way as to become an Athlon. You know, even though processors become much cheaper once the research (IP) is amortized, they do not become completely free either. It takes quite a little bit more effort to make an Athlon than to write your name (or even your price essay...) in the sand.
Or maybe it's because they're foreigners. Indeed, everywhere else in the world, except the US and maybe Canada, sales tax is already included in the displayed sales price...
Hey, the CCTV cameras pointing at the bench are not meant to stop vandalism. Or at least not that kind of vandalism. Their real purpose is to take pix of people who are naive enough to think they could haxor under the cover of the bench's "anonymity".
> Then, they have the ethical question of cameras in public to deal with,...
You can bet that one of these cameras is pointing right at that bench. If you haxor from that bench, you're photo will be up on the evening news...
Toysmart (in your link) was a for-profit company. However, the scary part is that this shit can happen to non-profits too: Scientology's revenge, or How scientology drove the Cult Awareness Network into bankruptcy, and seized its assets (including highly confidential case information and member lists).
Just let's hope the bench doesn't collapse under you when you try to sit down on it...
Or for using the Adobe mark without their permission. That would be excellent...
[Q] Why don't sharks attack lawyers?
[A] Professional courtesy.
They would also do well to pay off Dmitry Sklyarov's bail so that he can get back to his democratic home country...