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Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: sime on 29 August 2003, 15:29
Welcome to your cell, we hope you enjoy your stay matey!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62459-2003Aug28?language=printer (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62459-2003Aug28?language=printer)

He's in for a world of pain!

Sime
Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: jasonlane on 29 August 2003, 16:10
quote:
A witness reportedly saw the teen testing the infection and called authorities, the official said.


UH? how would they know that?  This smells fishy to me, there probably going to bust some kid that was just doing some PHP coding in a cyber caf.   :D
Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: Fett101 on 29 August 2003, 20:26
Perhaps he was showing it off to a friend..?
Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: HibbeeBoy on 29 August 2003, 22:33
They should arrest Gates. Gates has no qualms about calling in the authorities if you haven't paid for a license.
Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: Fett101 on 30 August 2003, 00:38
quote:
Originally posted by HibbeeBoy:
They should arrest Gates. Gates has no qualms about calling in the authorities if you haven't paid for a license.


That sentence doesn't make any sense..
Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: HibbeeBoy on 30 August 2003, 02:19
quote:
Originally posted by Fett101:


That sentence doesn't make any sense..


OK, let me expand on it.

Bill Gates has been dumping shitty software on companies for years. This shitty software has cost companies untold billions of dollars in lost revenue. Gates explicity states (see EULA) that he is not responsible for any damages incurred through the use of his software. I feel that the Gates is as culpable as the virus writer and Gates should be the one arrested.


To summarise,

Gates is a cunt.
Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: Pissed_Macman on 30 August 2003, 02:24
Hmm, the blaster writer got busted. Has anyone at these forums mysteriously stopped posting within the last day?
Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: hm_murdock on 30 August 2003, 04:36
rkmaster went away, didn't he?
Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: Fett101 on 30 August 2003, 21:38
Though that wasen't what you said in the previous post. You stated that Gates should be arrested because people are stealing his software.
Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: sime on 30 August 2003, 15:07
Ok,

so it's not the guy that wrote Blaster it's the guy who wrote blasterb i.e. he is supposed to have altered the original blaster code.

The person who created the original trojan is apparently still out there...

Sime
Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: Faust on 30 August 2003, 15:10
Heh heh.  

"And you shall be the sacrificial little lamb!"
  -- panda 2003
Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: sime on 30 August 2003, 15:14
Yeh,

I get that feeling too. Get someone QUICK!

Sime
Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: HibbeeBoy on 31 August 2003, 00:17
quote:
Originally posted by Fett101:
Though that wasen't what you said in the previous post. You stated that Gates should be arrested because people are stealing his software.


Well, now that I have cleared up that little confusion, you know where I stand on the issue.
Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: Fett101 on 31 August 2003, 04:32
However funny your stance may be. That's a standard point in EULA's. I'm sure that all the Linux distros, and OSX, and every piece of software ever made has had the same exact statement in thier EULA's.
Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: gump420 on 31 August 2003, 07:33
quote:
Originally posted by Fett101:
However funny your stance may be.


That sentence doesn't make any sense..
Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: Fett101 on 31 August 2003, 10:22
quote:
how
Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: Faust on 31 August 2003, 11:43
Yeah Fett is kinda right...  The GPL has a pretty obvious "no responsibility!" clause.  I think a few Unix providers may actually take responsibility for their software - it would certainly help a paranoid manager in the US administration (or a nuke plant...) choose.  Does QNX have a similar clause?  Would be interesting to find out as they do seem to want their product to be used in hospitals...
Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: HibbeeBoy on 1 September 2003, 01:39
quote:
Originally posted by Fett101:
However funny your stance may be. That's a standard point in EULA's. I'm sure that all the Linux distros, and OSX, and every piece of software ever made has had the same exact statement in thier EULA's.


To a certain extent that is true. The EULA's are getting bigger and more verbose and strangely, more ambiguios.
At the same time though, I think Microsoft should not be allowed off the hook so easily. Time and time again M$ have professed that their OS is secure only to be proved otherwise and not only that but deliberately so. Verbally in press releases Gates enthuses how secure XP has become, "security it's our number one priority" etc. Bullshit. It's no more secure, probably less so, than previous versions and XP is a liability. At the very least, the consumer should be able to to get their money back or some kind of compensation, or Gates should be arrested for fraud. His lies are on a par with Clinton, the master liar.
It is a curious thing that the software industry seems to be protected from any kind of liability when it screws up.

[ August 31, 2003: Message edited by: HibbeeBoy ]

Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: sime on 2 September 2003, 12:26
OK so they got the bragging script kiddie, it may not be so easy to catch the pros who created the originals viri / worms...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/32591.html (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/32591.html)

Sime
Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: Calum on 2 September 2003, 13:59
quote:
Originally posted by sime:
Ok,

so it's not the guy that wrote Blaster it's the guy who wrote blasterb i.e. he is supposed to have altered the original blaster code.

The person who created the original trojan is apparently still out there...

Sime

so this software is open source?
can it be downloaded from sourceforge.net?
Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: Faust on 2 September 2003, 17:51
It's probably illegal to even think about writing a virus.  I do have some issues of 40hex and the "little black virus book" if anyone is interested in reading them.
Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: sime on 3 September 2003, 20:13
Ok so the FEDS SEXED UP the case against the blaster-b variant writer.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/32635.html (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/32635.html)

He was such a nice boy, he used to cut the grass! (Zappa).

Sime
Title: Blaster Writer Busted!
Post by: solarismka on 3 September 2003, 21:14
This is very sad.  Yet another goverment messup costing innocewnt lives.  I hope Parsons sues the pants off the U.S. Goverment for being dumb A$$es in the first place!

Its not his fault that they trusted a faulty OS that they already knew it has problems.


  :(