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SCO.com Defaced

Posted by Hemos on Mon Nov 29, 2004 08:30 AM
from the stop-submitting-this dept.

A whole slew of readers wrote:"According to an Image on the SCO website they own all our code and we shall pay them all our money. (found at Heise online (german IT news). " Yes, I'm sure this will help the whole legal case; defacement has always been such a valued piece of input in court *cough*.

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Nothing for you to see here. Please move along (Score:5, Funny)

by CmdrGravy (645153) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:31AM (#10941934) Homepage

Very relevant for a change
- Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along (Score:5, Insightful)
  
  by Saven Marek (739395) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:46AM (#10942079)
  
  I have often wondered, to myself, what if this is wrong sinking to their level? Someone defaces their site and its seen as a bad reflection on the linux communitys.
  
  But when it comes down to it, this is not, even remotely close to what SCO are doing! SCO are thieves. Scum. They are wishing to use the legal syste, to gain and ownership and control and misuse the code of thousands of programmers, to scum off them and make profit on what is not theirs, they wish to lie and cheat and deprive the real workers and people playing by the rules of the benefits of their work, and they send letters to senators saying to make open source and linux and GPL unconstitutional??? This is not just a case of a minor disagreement between people about code this is SCO a thieving company wishing to exploit the works already done by so many people. Lying, theft, unconsciounable deceipt and exploitation
  
  I think some graphics replaced on their website is really minor considering the filthy actions they are trying to do!!!. Really!!!
  
  The best chat house on the web [tribbles.org]
  
  Parent
  - Only business (Score:5, Insightful)
    
    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2004, @08:53AM (#10942145)
    
    Hey, it's only business.
    Don't take SCO's actions so personally.
    
    Parent
    - Re:Only business (Score:5, Insightful)
      
      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2004, @08:57AM (#10942168)
      
      It's only business when someone burgles your house, too. Most of us still take it personally.
      
      Parent
      - Re:Only business (Score:5, Funny)
        
        by itwerx (165526) <itwerx@gmail.com> on Monday November 29 2004, @09:11AM (#10942295) Homepage
        
        It's only business when someone burgles your house, too. Most of us still take it personally.
        
        And I hope the burglar doesn't take it personally when I shoot his dumb ass... :)
        
        Parent
    - Re:Only business (Score:5, Insightful)
      
      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2004, @08:58AM (#10942184)
      
      The point is it's not business. It's extortion. It's "Those tools in your shed, that computer in your house, those toys your children have are mine. Bring them over here or I'll sue you".
      
      No matter whether you own the car or not, you end up involved in a legal squabble that costs you time and money.
      
      Parent
  - Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along (Score:5, Insightful)
    
    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2004, @08:54AM (#10942151)
    
    I think some graphics replaced on their website is really minor considering the filthy actions they are trying to do!!!
    
    You're right, but all that's besides the point:
    
    1. This doesn't hurt SCO, or those behind SCO, in any way at all.
    
    2. It doesn't help Linux, or those involved in Linux, in any way at all.
    
    3. It does harm the image of Linux users.
    
    4. It's illegal. Yeah, they're doing worse illegal stuff, so what? Vigilante justice is not the answer.
    
    Parent
    - Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along (Score:5, Funny)
      
      by eric_brissette (778634) on Monday November 29 2004, @09:09AM (#10942277)
      
      C'mon, you know deep down inside you think it's funny.
      
      Parent
      - Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along (Score:5, Insightful)
        
        by Rimbo (139781) <rimbosity@@@sbcglobal...net> on Monday November 29 2004, @10:26AM (#10942844) Homepage Journal
        
        The long-term negative effects this will have on the Linux community's image and the loathing I have for vandals outweighs the short-term humor of the gag.
        
        Parent
    - Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along (Score:5, Insightful)
      
      by hendridm (302246) on Monday November 29 2004, @09:18AM (#10942342) Homepage
      
      1. This doesn't hurt SCO, or those behind SCO, in any way at all.
      
      Well, it can't look good when the manufacturer of a commercial server operating system gets 0wned.
      
      Parent
    - Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along (Score:5, Funny)
      
      by LWATCDR (28044) on Monday November 29 2004, @10:10AM (#10942727) Homepage Journal
      
      I think Sco did it themselves just like the rigged the elections for Bush and are hidding that UFO they found from us. I mean think about it grep, sed, yacc, these have got to be from another planet.
      Yea it was totaly freanking usless and was actually hurtful to Linux to do anything to SCOs website.
      
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  - - - Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along (Score:5, Funny)
        
        by wo1verin3 (473094) on Monday November 29 2004, @09:14AM (#10942310) Homepage
        
        That's a good point, if it wasn't an inside job, wouldn't they have fixed it already?
        
        Can you imagine the SCO office right now?
        
        [lawyer 1] How do we change graphics on our that there webpage thing?
        [lawyer 2] graphics?
        [lawyer 1] the picture thingy
        [lawyer 2] uh....
        [lawyer 1] ok maybe we should have kept the IT dept... someone send an e-mail to India asking how please?
        
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  - - Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along (Score:5, Funny)
      
      by Kombat (93720) <kombat@kombat.org> on Monday November 29 2004, @09:49AM (#10942583) Homepage
      
      Defacing SCO's site doesn't do any damage to SCO, in fact the opposite because they can now cast "The Linux" community in a negative light.
      
      It obviously was not a member of the Linux community, a fact which can be easily proven. The defaced image contains absolutely zero typos. Clearly, it was an inside job.
      
      Parent
It may be defacement... (Score:5, Insightful)

by Anita Coney (648748) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:32AM (#10941944)

... but at least it was tastefully done.
- Re:It may be defacement... (Score:5, Interesting)
  
  by Malc (1751) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:54AM (#10942149)
  
  Indeed. Perhaps it was orchestrated by SCO themselves. Something from their marketing department as an awareness campaign to push up their share price so that the execs can keep making money selling them. Oh it's great being on /.: tin foil hats are so de rigeur!
  
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hehe (Score:5, Funny)

by maharg (182366) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:32AM (#10941945) Homepage Journal

.. but they *do* own all your code ~~~
See it before it goes away! (Score:5, Informative)

by mrpuffypants (444598) * <slashdot@tomservo.RASPnet minus berry> on Monday November 29 2004, @08:32AM (#10941946)

http://www.tomservo.net/etc/sco_defaced.jpg [tomservo.net]
- - Re:See it before it goes away! (Score:5, Funny)
    
    by JanusFury (452699) <`kevin.gadd' `at' `gmail.com'> on Monday November 29 2004, @09:12AM (#10942300) Homepage Journal
    
    And another one, as seen from Telnet in Windows XP:
    
    C:\>telnet www.sco.com 80
    GET /images/landing_pages_new/webinar_land2-1.jpg
    JFIF d d Ducky Adobe d ä
    
    Parent
Screenshot Mirror (Score:5, Informative)

by nuxx (10153) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:32AM (#10941948) Homepage

In case SCO [sco.com] ever gets around to fixing their site, a screenshot I took of the affected site is available here [nuxx.net].
- Re:Screenshot Mirror (Score:5, Informative)
  
  by jai0 (789339) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:39AM (#10942017)
  
  did you notice the "hacked by realloc" in the image?? the guy seems to write that..
  
  Parent
  - - Re:Screenshot Mirror (Score:5, Funny)
      
      by archen (447353) on Monday November 29 2004, @09:22AM (#10942366)
      
      Heh, only on slashdot would people note a hackers name in the background of a defaced website, and totally overlook a chick in a picture.
      
      Parent
Decent (Score:5, Funny)

by chaceboi (799929) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:32AM (#10941951)

Nice of him not to use the AYCABTU line.
Bad hacker! Bad! (Score:5, Funny)

by erlando (88533) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:33AM (#10941952) Homepage

Though you have to admire the subtlety..
Now if it said... (Score:5, Funny)

by chipmeister (802507) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:33AM (#10941956)

All your base are belong...
Twice in one day. (Score:5, Informative)

by Amiga Lover (708890) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:33AM (#10941963)

Earlier in the day the lead story was asking for 256billion in payments from Microsoft, as SCO had found UNIX code in all versions of Windows.

Then that disappeared, but the graphic remained.
- Re:Twice in one day. (Score:5, Informative)
  
  by catalax (826962) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:38AM (#10942008)
  
  here is a screenshot [neowin.net] .
  
  Parent
I... (Score:5, Funny)

by sv25 (773540) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:33AM (#10941964)

I would have posted a mirror, but the /. affect on the SCO site is much more fun.
it's not surprising they didn't fix it yet... (Score:5, Funny)

by SilveRo_kun (741555) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:33AM (#10941965) Homepage Journal

It's not so obvious that the website is defaced =P
Another article (Score:5, Interesting)

by osvejda (799137) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:34AM (#10941971)

Article on NewsForge [newsforge.com] and screenshot [newsforge.com].
Conspiracy theory of the day (Score:5, Funny)

by surelars (573834) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:35AM (#10941985)

"SCO defaced their own site to discredit the Linux Community". You heard it here first.
Fixed (Score:5, Funny)

by oexeo (816786) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:36AM (#10941988)

It's been fixed now, it's gone back to the original slogan: "We own all your code, pay us all your money."
look at the blackboard in the background (Score:5, Interesting)

by Leonig Mig (695104) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:36AM (#10941989) Homepage Journal

the woman has written "hacked by reallock" ?? the name is slightly obscured.
- Re:look at the blackboard in the background (Score:5, Interesting)
  
  by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2004, @08:41AM (#10942034)
  
  Efnet: /whois realloc -!- realloc [nobody@nightwish.wideopenbsd.org] -!- ircname : h4h4@sco -!- channels : @#sco -!- server : irc.nac.net [I have a poisonous friend] -!- End of WHOIS
  
  Parent
  - Re:look at the blackboard in the background (Score:5, Interesting)
    
    by TheSurfer (560640) on Monday November 29 2004, @10:39AM (#10942952)
    
    $ resolveip nightwish.wideopenbsd.org IP address of nightwish.wideopenbsd.org is 194.145.249.5 $ whois 194.145.249.5 | egrep '(org|address)' org: ORG-pI10-RIPE organisation: ORG-pI10-RIPE org-name: prq Inet org-type: NON-REGISTRY address: Box 1206 address: SE 11479 Stockholm address: Sweden address: prq Inet
    
    FTI: these are the same guys that manage thepiratebay.org, the biggest Swedish/European BitTorrent tracker.
    
    Parent
- Re:look at the blackboard in the background (Score:5, Informative)
  
  by Renesis (646465) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:52AM (#10942131)
  
  "hacked by realloc()"
  
  "realloc()" is the guy that did the hack. His tag was on the RedHat page on the SCO site last night before he obviously thought up something more amusing ;)
  
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that is elegant and leet... (Score:5, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2004, @08:36AM (#10941995)

Changing only one image and in a way that it looks like it absolutely belongs...

all I can say is that all you other ankle-biters out there need to learn from this....

posting defacings that look like viagra adds and filled with shouts and greetZ only makes you look like a very silly child with only script-kiddie skillz.

(oh and spelling that way makes you simply look like a wanna-be)

congrats to whoever did it. they needed to make it a little more discreet to see if it would have stayed there for a week or more...
8:35 and it's still there... (Score:5, Funny)

by Cletus the yokel (462083) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:38AM (#10942013)

Conclusion: It's not a defacement. It's their new corperate motto.
Openserver? (Score:5, Funny)

by SlayerofGods (682938) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:45AM (#10942071)

SCO® OpenServer(TM) 5.0.7
A little too open it would seem.
- Re:Openserver? (Score:5, Insightful)
  
  by avdp (22065) * on Monday November 29 2004, @08:56AM (#10942161)
  
  Would be funny except their website appears to be running Linux.
  
  Parent
  - Re:Openserver? (Score:5, Funny)
    
    by TheRaven64 (641858) on Monday November 29 2004, @09:37AM (#10942487) Homepage Journal
    
    Well of course it is. They own it, after all...
    
    Parent
Still defaced.. (Score:5, Funny)

by rasty (212471) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:45AM (#10942073) Homepage

Looks like the site is still defaced.. maybe they should teach HTML to some lawyers and fix things up :)
Microsoft.com looks OK (Score:5, Funny)

by nmg196 (184961) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:47AM (#10942095)

..and sco.com is hacked. Therefore IIS is more secure :)
I just tried... (Score:5, Funny)

by zenmojodaddy (754377) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:54AM (#10942147)

...searching the SCO website for the phrase 'litigious bastards'. It returns an error message: #1040 Too Many Connections.

Made me laugh, anyway.
Announced here yesterday (Score:5, Informative)

by erikharrison (633719) on Monday November 29 2004, @09:06AM (#10942249)

Did anyone other than me not notice when this was "announced" here on Slashdot in the e17 story?

Here. [slashdot.org]

Seems not to have gotten much attention, but it show's that kiddies can't help but crow, even anonymously.
Why they haven't changed it (Score:5, Funny)

by oexeo (816786) on Monday November 29 2004, @09:07AM (#10942262)

Apparently they haven't changed it yet because their web-development department is having trouble finding the FrontPage shortcut
Pictures (Score:5, Funny)

by SteakandcheeseUm (191173) on Monday November 29 2004, @09:50AM (#10942590) Homepage

What the hell are they doing in This picture?
http://www.sco.com/images/landing_pages/people.gif [sco.com]
I for one, am glad that they got h4x0r3d after publishing this smut.
- Re:Pictures (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by Gleng (537516) on Monday November 29 2004, @09:56AM (#10942641)
  
  That's a publicity photo from SCO OpenBukkake 3.7.
  
  (The "before" photo.)
  
  Parent
- Re:Slow aswell... (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by Ralph Yarro (704772) on Monday November 29 2004, @08:42AM (#10942043) Homepage
  
  Hopefully they wont be as slow when they start doing the linux support we pay them for
  
  When they start? I'm already getting the full service.
  
  As a completely unbiased and disinterested observer, I bought a SCO license to see what the fuss was about. Since then NOBODY has sued me for anything, least of all for violating any code SCO might possibly have in the Linux kernel (including any Linux kernels in alternate universes). You can't argue with service like that. I'd recommend it to anyone.
  
  Parent
- Re:strings on the graphic (Score:5, Interesting)
  
  by Naikrovek (667) <jjohnson@@@psg...com> on Monday November 29 2004, @08:53AM (#10942143) Homepage
  
  did anyone else notice what she was writing?
  
  "hacked by realloc(" and she's drawing the ")"
  
  Parent
- Re:strings on the graphic (Score:5, Informative)
  
  by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2004, @09:03AM (#10942223)
  
  JFIF means it's in JPEG File Interchange Format.
  
  Adobe means it was created with an Adobe product.
  
  Ducky is there because certain Adobe employees are obsessed with rubber ducks [realworldgolive.com].
  
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Nothing for you to see here. Please move along (Score:5, Funny)

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Only business (Score:5, Insightful)

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It may be defacement... (Score:5, Insightful)

Re:It may be defacement... (Score:5, Interesting)

hehe (Score:5, Funny)

See it before it goes away! (Score:5, Informative)

Re:See it before it goes away! (Score:5, Funny)

Screenshot Mirror (Score:5, Informative)

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Decent (Score:5, Funny)

Bad hacker! Bad! (Score:5, Funny)

Now if it said... (Score:5, Funny)

Twice in one day. (Score:5, Informative)

Re:Twice in one day. (Score:5, Informative)

I... (Score:5, Funny)

it's not surprising they didn't fix it yet... (Score:5, Funny)

Another article (Score:5, Interesting)

Conspiracy theory of the day (Score:5, Funny)

Fixed (Score:5, Funny)

look at the blackboard in the background (Score:5, Interesting)

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that is elegant and leet... (Score:5, Insightful)

8:35 and it's still there... (Score:5, Funny)

Openserver? (Score:5, Funny)

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Still defaced.. (Score:5, Funny)

Microsoft.com looks OK (Score:5, Funny)

I just tried... (Score:5, Funny)

Announced here yesterday (Score:5, Informative)

Why they haven't changed it (Score:5, Funny)

Pictures (Score:5, Funny)

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