SCO Offers $250K Bounty for MyDoom Author's Arrest 783
Performer Guy writes "This SCO press release indicates that they are offering a $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest & conviction of the MyDoom DDoS worm authors. Let's hope they catch them. Not merely because MyDoom is one of the most mindless attacks on our internet infrastructure in memory, but also when they pay up it'll be less cash for SCO's litigation engine."
Thanks to Tin Foil Hat and prostoalex for pointing out links at ComputerWorld and CNET, too. Related to this: stealth.c writes "Bruce Perens has written a letter to the Open Source community, discouraging us from cheering on the MyDOOM virus, as it would falsely implicate the FOSS communities and almost certainly cause the success of the virus writer's mission of discrediting these movements. This letter is also posted on NewsForge and on Groklaw." Unfortunately, with columns like this one blaming the worm on "some ticked-off Linux fan", it needs to be said.
Hey, d00d! (Score:5, Funny)
Copyright. (Score:5, Funny)
It's that SCO thinks that MyDoom's source code is owned by them. :)
cash money (Score:5, Funny)
How did they get that kind of money?
Oh right...
$699 at a time : (
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Fine Print: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Copyright. (Score:5, Funny)
How Dare You Timothy? (Score:1, Funny)
SCO offers $250K bounty... (Score:2, Funny)
And the sum will be paid out as... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hey, d00d! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The plan (Score:1, Funny)
4. ???
5. Profit
OT, but I just submitted this story: (Score:5, Funny)
Thank you to all
Congratulations, everybody!
On a side note, simply searching for "bastards" brings up SCO). [google.com] If Google happens to notice and block it (as in the past), a screenshot is here. [herrvinny.com] Please be kind to my server
I couldn't help but notice.... (Score:5, Funny)
Now I wonder why you put that in there?
Re:Nastyness (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I know this is meant to be funny but. (Score:3, Funny)
those 4 years in jail you have no expenses.
that 32k/yr is PURE PROFIT!
Re:The plan (Score:1, Funny)
MyDoom (Score:2, Funny)
/. assaults SCO with a DDoS! (Score:1, Funny)
I'd do the opposite (Score:5, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Copyright. (Score:5, Funny)
Obviously, SCO wrote MyDoom. Part of the payload is several lines of unix code copyrighted by SCO. Notice how the worm is reporting back to SCO? That's not a DDOS; that's the worm reporting the IP addresses of everybody who now owes SCO $699 for copyright infrigement.
Re:Trying to throw us off the trail, huh? (Score:2, Funny)
I wonder....
do the DDoS requests to www.sco.com include the captured keystrokes?
maybe they're on a funding drive?
Re:Trying to throw us off the trail, huh? (Score:3, Funny)
KFG
eWeek needs a lobotomy. (Score:5, Funny)
Anyone worth their while knows that Linux fans don't code anything for Windows unless they are paid for it. It's something called 'taint,' which money readily removes. :-P
OSS coders doing Windows worms?!?!? (Score:1, Funny)
What self-respecting OSS programmer would write a worm for Windows?
Inconceivable!
Re:The plan (Score:5, Funny)
2. Collect SCO's reward.
3. Give the money to the OSDL SCO defense fund.
WHAT?!
Lemme tell you something. I'd get a bigass Winnebago and I'd get "SCO SUCKS" airbrushed onto the sides of it. I'd then proceed to camp out across the street from SCO headquarters.
LK
heh, and they thought the virus was bad (Score:3, Funny)
Whats the award gonna be for everyone hitting their site and bringing their server to its knees?
"500 dollars for the head of every linux junkie who loaded our web site!"
It's really a ploy... (Score:2, Funny)
I gotta give the RIAA credit...brilliant, brilliant work...
Re:Hey, d00d! (Score:5, Funny)
Hell has frozen over (Score:5, Funny)
Hand me those earmuffs, Mr. Lucifer. Chilly, huh? You just never know about the weather around here.
You must be kidding (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder who exactly are those people who expect some of it to be true. I have some nice bridges in various American cities for sale and we are also handling the pre-sale of some real state in the Moon and in Mars for Nasa. So if you know anyone who believes in articles whose main source of information are Slashdot comments, please ask them to give me a call.
Re:Hey, d00d! (Score:2, Funny)
Turn himself in for half a percent of the reward? Sounds too good to pass up..
Re:The message from Bruce Perens (Score:5, Funny)
Umm.. yeah, right pal- like we can't figure out when someone is worried his karma is going downhill!
www.linuxstolescocode.com (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hey, d00d! (Score:1, Funny)
Ok... When did SCO actauly get developers? I thought the whole company was a bunch of lawyers?Honestly, wtf is 4,000 developers been doing this whole time if they arn't writing code.... ahhh the developers are probably the ones running the court cases, I'm starting to understand SCO a bit better everyday!
SCO: "ok, your not making any money writing code, I want you all to start suing people for the code you should have been writing"
Developers: "We have to do work now?!!"
Now to figure out about that 11,000 resellers...
Scene - the virus writer's parents' basement (Score:5, Funny)
Scene - the virus writer's parents' basement
Script Kiddie #1: OK, dude, like, I got the, y'know, latest version of, like, Virus Creator, dude.
Script Kiddie #2: Swheeet! Dude, like, run it!
Script Kiddie #1: Fuxor! Like, I clicked on it, and, like, it didn't go!
SK2: Dude! You have to, like, double click! Lamer!
SK1: STFU! I know that! Fag!
SK1: Uhhh, like, it's doing sumthing. Oh - kewl! It's like, installing stuff.
SK2: Shweet! Man, this rox!
Virus Creator: Virus Creator Wizard - page 1 of 5 - Do you want to install a backdoor? [yes] [no] [help]
SK1: Shweet! Yeah, let's set up my army of zombies! Huh-huh-huh!
Virus Creator: Virus Creator Wizard - page 2 of 5 - Do you want to install a spam relay? [yes] [no] [help]
SK2: Dude! We can, like, make money! Do it, dude!
Virus Creator: Virus Creator Wizard - page 3 of 5 - Do you want to install an HTTP relay ? [yes] [no] [help]
SK1: WTF? (clicks help)
Virus Creator: This lets us serve PR0N through your zombies - click yes and we will let you have the password to see some of it.
SK1 and SK2 (together): DUDE! SHWEEET!
Virus Creator: Virus Creator Wizard - page 4 of 5 - Do you want to DDOS somebody ? [yes] [no] [help]
SK2: Yeah!
Virus Creator: Virus Creator Wizard - DDOS setup - Who do you want to DDOS? [enter URL here]
SK1: Who should we fuxor? School?
SK2: DUDE! If you fuxor school how can we look at pr0n during class? (dope-smacks SK1)
SK1: OW! Fag! OK, uhhh, dude, like, the RAII?
SK2: YEAH! Fuxoring with our MP3s!
Virus Creator: Virus Creator Wizard - URL "www.raii.com" not found - try again [enter URL here]
SK2: Fuxor!
SK1: Dude, like, what's something with less letters, man?
SK2: SCO?
SK1: Yeah! FUXOR JOO, SCO!
Virus Creator: Virus Creator Wizard - page 5 of 5 - Virus ready - click here to email [ok]
SK1 and SK2 (together): SHWEET!
In other words, I think the DDOS against SCO is incidental to the real purpose of this virus - which is to spread spam. Like as not the choice of SCO was just because they are in the news, and to shift the blame to somebody else.
what currency? (Score:4, Funny)
Is that 250,000 in cash or SCO stock?
Lets just add it up... (Score:1, Funny)
Bounty on your head - 256K
Memory in the computer you programmed this worm with - 256MB
All the memory you
Having every damn member of the OSS community hate you - priceless
Re:I know this is meant to be funny but. (Score:5, Funny)
Pretty much a love/hate relationship...
Re:Hey, d00d! (Score:3, Funny)
I think they were referring to the OSS programmers writing actual kernel code, which SCO thinks it owns now
Re:OT, but I just submitted this story: (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hey, d00d! (Score:5, Funny)
DDOS? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:DDOS is SCO submission to the court of public o (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dear Bruce Perens (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The message from Bruce Perens (Score:4, Funny)
First of all, it should read, some moronic Linux fans are cheering on MyDoom. Take an English class, buddy.
Second, I am NOT a "Linux fan". Actually, I'm decidedly pro-Microsoft when it comes to the desktop. It just happens that I hate SCO's tactics. I'm offended to be lumped into a "Linux Fan" category.
Third, the author says "...and get some Windows boxen on the internet!" This guy can't even cut and paste correctly.
Re:Hey, d00d! (Score:3, Funny)
what do you mean? what "Post Anonymously" button?
Re:Hey, d00d! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:OT, but I just submitted this story: (Score:2, Funny)
You must be new here.
Re:I know this is meant to be funny but. (Score:5, Funny)
1. Release virus to DDoS SCO
2. Go to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison
3. ???
4. Profit!
Re:DDOS is SCO submission to the court of public o (Score:3, Funny)
Or, if we still don't like Metallica, we can call them "Nefarious Master....Master.....Master of puppets!"
Re:I know this is meant to be funny but. (Score:5, Funny)
that's why i've begun outsourcing all my virus-writing to india, where the programmers aren't spoiled by "health insurance" or "a living wage" or "the requirement of staying out of prison".
Oh, the irony (Score:3, Funny)
Let's hope whoever does catch the authors, and collects the bounty, dontates the money to the SCO Defense Fund [slashdot.org]
Re:Hey, d00d! (Score:3, Funny)
That is a way better deal!!!!
Re:Copyright. (Score:3, Funny)
No wonder they're pissed.
Re:I know this is meant to be funny but. (Score:5, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Copyright. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hey, d00d! (Score:5, Funny)
I did it.
I used a combination of Visual Basic and Commodore 64 Logo.
Deposit the $250,000 in my Swiss Bank Account and I'll be at your office first thing Monday morning with the source. You can check to see whether it has any of the Unix code that you 'own'.
I might have to spend a year in jail (maybe even a little more if they find out about the thing with the seeds in the parking lot of the Grateful Dead show back in 1978). But after that I'll be free with $250,000. I'll use the time to brush up on investment theory and derivatives and maybe even get in a little weight training.
Beats a year in a cubicle doing tech support on the phone for $8/hr.
Keep me posted!!!
Re:Boston Tea Party.... (Score:4, Funny)
Linux is just a peice of software. SCO is attempting (and making a poor attempt at that) at suing IBM fro breach of contract or whatever. The courts are likely to decide against them. The system hasn't really failed us here. Its just moving very slowly, as usual.
I commend you for your enthusiasm but it isn't time to start a revolution. Linux is still legal. SCO will likely die without any action on our part whatsoever. Relax dude.
The guy that wrote this virus isn't Paul Revere or Che Guevara or whatever. He's likely some loser with low self esteem looking for attention. Or maybe a spammer.
bounty hunters (Score:2, Funny)