"Garbles", uh, I mean "Gobbles security" are really cheesy and annoying. They've got chops, and it's understandable that the Register had to run with the story, but C'mon...
From their bugtraq post:
"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 f*ck with the RIAA again, scriptkids. 5) We have our own private version of this hydra actively infecting p2p users, and building one giant ddosnet."
Hmmm. If this is true, and I sometimes play "borrowed" MP3's and MPEG's on Winamp, then why do my versions of Xolox and KaZaA Lite checksum exactly the same as the binaries from the net distros...?
Wait! I'll bet these guys are so l33t that they hacked my version of Cygwin sum, too, just to be sure.
Or no, wait, wait, they're prob'ly so good that they hacked the net distros, or...
I've got it. These guys are such geniuses, they computed their hack to checksum exactly the same as the unhacked binary! Wow! No wonder my firewall, which checksums every executable I run, is useless against their l33tness!
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"Garbles", uh, I mean "Gobbles security" are really cheesy and annoying. They've got chops, and it's understandable that the Register had to run with the story, but C'mon...
From their bugtraq post:
"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 f*ck with the RIAA again, scriptkids.
5) We have our own private version of this hydra actively
infecting p2p users, and building one giant ddosnet."
Hmmm. If this is true, and I sometimes play "borrowed" MP3's and MPEG's on Winamp, then why do my versions of Xolox and KaZaA Lite checksum exactly the same as the binaries from the net distros...?
Wait! I'll bet these guys are so l33t that they hacked my version of Cygwin sum, too, just to be sure.
Or no, wait, wait, they're prob'ly so good that they hacked the net distros, or...
I've got it. These guys are such geniuses, they computed their hack to checksum exactly the same as the unhacked binary! Wow! No wonder my firewall, which checksums every executable I run, is useless against their l33tness!
Fsckin' punks.