Things to keep in mind:
1) If you participate in illegal file-sharing networks, your
computer now belongs to the RIAA.
2) Your BlackIce Defender(tm) firewall will not help you.
3) Snort, RealSecure, Dragon, NFR, and all that other crap
cannot detect this attack, or this type of attack.
4) Don't fuck with the RIAA again, scriptkids.
5) We have our own private version of this hydra actively
infecting p2p users, and building one giant ddosnet.
I had the same thought after reading a comment about the virus using gcc to compile itself. I run Mac OS X 10.1, so I planned to find out if I was vulnerable after the article was un-slashdotted, because I only run apache firewalled for web testing.
Then I remembered that I had un-firewalled port 80 to show someone something about a week ago. I half-panicked, and started to reach for the mouse to poke around in an open Terminal window, but when I got my hand on my mouse the spinning-grainy-rainbow-pinwheel-of-death appeared, and after about 5 sec, froze into the top left corner. Then the pre-login light blue screen appeared and locked the computer.
I power-cycled, and it came back up fine. I checked apache and firewall logs, and the last port 80 scan was several hours before, and the last connection looked like an attempted winnt exploit(like almost every other connection it had logged). Check for IIS first, FFS... So I think the machine is fine, but that was really weird. It's almost like the computer fainted when I thought of the possibility of it having a virus. I'm going to install new ssl as soon as possible, though.
Apple Employee Fired For Thinking Different
CUPERTINO, CA-- Brent Barlow, 27, a software analyst and beta-tester at Apple Computer headquarters in Cupertino, was fired Monday for "thinking a little too different."
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Things to keep in mind:
1) If you participate in illegal file-sharing networks, your
computer now belongs to the RIAA.
2) Your BlackIce Defender(tm) firewall will not help you.
3) Snort, RealSecure, Dragon, NFR, and all that other crap
cannot detect this attack, or this type of attack.
4) Don't fuck with the RIAA again, scriptkids.
5) We have our own private version of this hydra actively
infecting p2p users, and building one giant ddosnet.
6) Not even Austin Powers can stop us this time.
I had the same thought after reading a comment about the virus using gcc to compile itself. I run Mac OS X 10.1, so I planned to find out if I was vulnerable after the article was un-slashdotted, because I only run apache firewalled for web testing.
Then I remembered that I had un-firewalled port 80 to show someone something about a week ago. I half-panicked, and started to reach for the mouse to poke around in an open Terminal window, but when I got my hand on my mouse the spinning-grainy-rainbow-pinwheel-of-death appeared, and after about 5 sec, froze into the top left corner. Then the pre-login light blue screen appeared and locked the computer.
I power-cycled, and it came back up fine. I checked apache and firewall logs, and the last port 80 scan was several hours before, and the last connection looked like an attempted winnt exploit(like almost every other connection it had logged). Check for IIS first, FFS... So I think the machine is fine, but that was really weird. It's almost like the computer fainted when I thought of the possibility of it having a virus. I'm going to install new ssl as soon as possible, though.
The Onion:
Apple Employee Fired For Thinking Different CUPERTINO, CA--
Brent Barlow, 27, a software analyst and beta-tester at Apple Computer headquarters in Cupertino, was fired Monday for "thinking a little too different." Full Text
"Imagine what we could do if humans could use 100% of their brains!"
"You could jerk around all over the floor. It's called a seizure."
"Oh."
What about "Pick of the Litter" or "Best of Breed"?
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