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Links: SCO Puts Price on Head of MyDoom Creator
Posted by James Grimmelmann on Tuesday, January 27 @ 23:54:25 EST Computer Crime
The MyDoom virus -- which has the dubious distinction of being the fastest-spreading virus of all time -- has turned out to be the delivery vehicle for an impending distributed denial-of-service attack on SCO. SCO has responded by offering a $250,000 bounty "for information leading to the arrest and conviction." as they always say. A few quick reactions:
  • Dividing $25 million by $250,000 indicates that the makers of MyDoom are 1/100th as dangerous as Osama bin Laden.
  • Not to praise the masters of MyDoom, but SCO really does keep coming off like the Sherriff of Nottingham: mean-spirited, but also kind of humorously incompetent in the face of Robin Hood's antics.
  • The social engineering on this one is good. Disguising the executable payload as a "converted" text file is mighty sneaky.
  • Those bastards have been forging my name in From: headers. They'd better hope that SCO gets to them before I do.
 
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Social engineering; technical engineering (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 28 @ 19:46:21 EST
The social engineering may be good, but what's with the fact that idiot end users are STILL being provided with mail tools that let them execute attachments at all? Do we have to pave such a smooth road towards obvious disaster? An ounce of technical nous could leave this cyber-critter and its entire ilk DOA. But no, we still have pervasive adoption of systems that think "click here to shoot yourself and all those around you in the foot" is user-friendly design. [Expletive deleted].


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Re: SCO Puts Price on Head of MyDoom Creator (Score: 1)
by preadapted (preadapted@yahoo.com) on Saturday, January 31 @ 10:24:27 EST
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This is the only post I've seen here related to the SCO cases. I see no mention of www.groklaw.net and it does not appear in a local site search.

I have been following SCO and their CEO, Darl Mcbride for some months now on both legal and financial message boards for the purpose of studying the affects of litigation and threats of litigation on stock price and perceived stock/corporate value or worth.

These cases and their elements are being followed closely in the IT and other industries world wide as the outcome of the associated litigations could have far reaching, in fact global consequences re IP and the body of law surrounding IP issues.

As the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology has invited Mr. Mcbride to speak on Monday, Feb 2nd I would invite all interested parties to visit groklaw at the above referenced URL and do a tiny bit of research on what is happening and has occured so far.

I would be sincerely interested in feedback and comments from some of you folks on how you perceive the merits of SCO's assertions, methods, and court filings.

Gary



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