Exploit Found in Seti@Home

Jamie noted that an Exploit was found in Seti@Home and there is code exploiting the hole actually running about in the wild. Patches are available for those of you not interested in running a public warez server or DoS client ;)

Aliens exploiting?

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder whether aliens are exploiting this to control us /me screams and runs in fear.

Firings...

[Anonymous Coward]

Something tells me that this exploit is going to lead to a lot more people getting fired than, say, that OpenSSH one a while back.

Too late...

[Anonymous Coward]

But I already run a public warez server!

Must be

[Anonymous Coward]

Must be because of evil bits sent by menacing aliens!

So there weren't really 18 new jupiter satellites?

[Anonymous Coward]

Just a bunch of h4x0rs having fun again? Dang.

Everyone knows its...

[Chris_Stankowitz]

the Aliens doing this. Not to worry though. I will use my I-Book to hack into their systems and upload a virus.

Re:Too late...

[Anonymous Coward]

it's always you damn Anonymous Coward bastards.

oh wait...

Omigod!!

[Anonymous Coward]

There are illegal aliens in my computer!#!@

Alien Fury

[Flamesplash]

I'm sure the Aliens will love it when we try to DoS attack them. That's one way to make friends with a new species. "Oh sorry about that, yeah were a smart world, REALLY!!"

Alien pr0n

[Fulkkari]

I wonder whether aliens are exploiting this to control us /me screams and runs in fear.

If the aliens would be exploiting that, our computers would be full of alien pr0n, which it isn't the case... Right? RIGHT?

That's why I only give my extra cycles to

[Anonymous Coward]

distributed.net [distributed.net] in support of Team Slashdot [distributed.net]. Let's crack that RC5-72 so that we can move on to RC5-128! Only 657,374 days (~1800 years) left to go!

Re:Aliens exploiting?

[Waffle Iron]

I wonder whether aliens are exploiting this to control us /me screams and runs in fear.

Of course they are exploiting SETI. They obviously hack in to all systems that find positive results and surreptitiously replace them with random noise.

They are covering their tracks. How else could you explain this suspicious lack of alien signal evidence after all of these years of searching? This is a coverup of galactic proportions.

Re:In the wild or not?

[Anonymous Coward]

Um, lets see... Believe the actual page... or believe what a Slashdot "editor" writes... Hmm, tough call.

Re:Firings...

[Anonymous Coward]

>coders make mistakes. That's why they put a backspace key on keyboards.

No, the backspace is there for the users. We allow it on our keyboards because it is cheaper than having separate keyboards for programmers!

This IS being used!

[Adler]

Look! Their site is down! Someone must have used this exploit to launch a Dos on them! Oh wait... damn you slashdot!

Making it run a warez server would mean

[noogle]

at least its doing something useful... rather than just pointlessly scanning some random data with no hope of finding anything.

Aliens want warez too

[LemurShop]

running winxp on the spaceship woo -.-

Re:In the wild or not?

[brundlefly]

Where is the wild? Anyone have the address?

I'd like to run about there also.

TIA!

Re:Firings...

[Alomex]

Coders make mistakes. That's why they put a backspace key on keyboards.

That's only there for PC wimps.

Everybody knows that pressing backspace in the original Emacs brought up the help page (I'm not making this up).

Whew!

[Faust7]

Good thing the 20 computers I'm running it on aren't even mine!

Re:Is my box owned?

[Anonymous Coward]

I went in and took a look around your system. All the files seem fine. I guess you're okay.

Re:Aliens exploiting?

[JudgeFurious]

A little aluminum foil over the ports in your computer will take care of this just as easily and with less effort then downloading some suspect "patch" that's probably nothing more than a way for "them" to get control of your box and then eventually of course you.

Where can I get such a server?

[rice_burners_suck]

Where do you download the software for warez servers and DoS clients? I know some people who have old DOS programs that they need to run for their business, and they also need a warez server to search for stock quotes online and tell them "ware" they are.

No: the government is! Re:Aliens exploiting?

[Anonymous Coward]

They are covering their tracks. How else could you explain this suspicious lack of alien signal evidence after all of these years of searching? This is a coverup of galactic proportions.


I am risking my life by sharing this with you, but someone must speak out before it's too late!

There ARE no such things as aliens. The real coverup is that the government has been manipulating the public to accept that there may be aliens, and is using that to get funding and public support for sinister military projects that, otherwise, would be difficult to run.

Seti@Home is the most recent, and diabolical, of them all. Hundreds of thousands of people have been conned into believing that they're actually searching for "alien communications." The truth is that they're processing massive amounts of data, fed directly to the Arecibo dish by the military as part of a massive attempt at global mind control / thoughtcrime detection.

The signals being processed are actually brainwaves of the billions of people on the planet. Currently, they are researching normal brainwave activity in the global population and experimenting on a select group of individuals using weather satellites to beam mind control signals directly into their skulls. Once phase 1 has been completed, they will being experimenting with lightly controlling the minds of a whole country or continent. Finally, total control of the world population will take place.

Re:In the wild or not?

[diesel_jackass]

i don't know where it is but according to the late night commercials, girls go there to get videotaped by snoop dogg. it sure looks like a fun place though.

Re:Aliens exploiting?

[The Monster]

Naah. When we finally decode data from an ETI site, it will probably be something like

• 100% Guaranteed Stamen Enhancement - not only have users reported gains in length and girth of up to 50% or more, but enhanced spectral response as well - have the iridiescence that impresses females....
• Larvae gone wild - See these hot young females in action - catch them quick before they pupate....
• I am writing to you on a matter of utmost importance, which must be treated with the highest delicacy. My name is T'Jek, senior wife of the recently deceased Ska-al-ath, Subprefect for Industrial Development for Remnalon. Prior to his death, he was able to set aside in a special account the sum of 5 trillion Kalkaks, but due to banking regulations it will be necessary for me to move the money to an account in a different Prefecture in order to access it...
• Please forward this message to as many sentient entities as possible. As G'iarc D'log-rerh-s lies dying of the incurable Andorian Wasting Disease, he has but one wish - to set the record for having a message forwarded to the highest number of sentient beings in the known galaxy....
• Check out network channel 904753cx for a 'buffer overrun'
• In Teivos Empire - your computational device exploits h4x0r5!
• FR157 P057!

Re:No: the government is! Re:Aliens exploiting?

[Anonymous Coward]

Frighteningly, I find the prospect of mass mind control more comforting than the idea that people are really this stupid on their own...

Re:Whew!

[LucidityZero]

I've found that high-priority, production government web servers process my SETI data much quicker than at home!

ET Phone Home

[melangeboi]

More like ET DoS home!

THE SLANT [theslant.net]

Re:No: the government is! Re:Aliens exploiting?

[Anonymous Coward]

that'll teach me to buy store-brand tin foil...

Re:No: the government is! Re:Aliens exploiting?

[C0LDFusion]

Thoughtcrime?! More newspeak. Your duckspeak betrays total blackwhite to the prolefeed-quality conspiracy theories. There is no cabal. Crimestop immediately for masshappy.