SCO.com Defaced 547
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*.
strings on the graphic (Score:4, Interesting)
$ strings webinar_land2-1.jpg | head -n 3
JFIF
Ducky
Adobe
Another article (Score:5, Interesting)
Slow aswell... (Score:2, Interesting)
look at the blackboard in the background (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:look at the blackboard in the background (Score:5, Interesting)
-!- realloc [nobody@nightwish.wideopenbsd.org]
-!- ircname : h4h4@sco
-!- channels : @#sco
-!- server : irc.nac.net [I have a poisonous friend]
-!- End of WHOIS
Re:strings on the graphic (Score:5, Interesting)
"hacked by realloc(" and she's drawing the ")"
Insecure linux & Apache ? (Score:1, Interesting)
how can this be ?, an uptodate apache running on linux [netcraft.com] and yet the site is STILL defaced ? iam sure the ecommerce sites (and the repuation of OSS) that depend on nix and its "security" are most pleased with examples like this, is it any wonder buisness view linux with sceptism
Re:It may be defacement... (Score:5, Interesting)
Better uses for Joe Barr's abilities (Score:1, Interesting)
And while we're on the subject, the whereabouts of Jimmy Hoffa? Was there more than one gunman in the Kennedy assassination? Are there weak keys in AES?
Anyone want to compile a list that Joe Barr can help us with?
Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along (Score:2, Interesting)
It is a little curious that this happens the morning after Groklaw puts up the USL-UCB Regents agreement from '94. The one that SCO doesn't have a copy of. Hmmm
Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along (Score:3, Interesting)
"Just kidding!"
My personal hope is that they turn around and follow that up with:
"IBM didn't buy us, we used all our money on legal fees, we are now bankrupt, don't try to counter sue"
Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along (Score:2, Interesting)
Give them some time. In the US it's still early in the morning, after the long Thanksgiving weekend. People may be late for work this morning, or busy chatting with their coworkers on what they did on the weekend. When dremel was defaced on Halloween weekend, it took also til rather late until it was fixed.
It's always funny however, how discretely these things are fixed, with nary a word of explanation of what happened ;-) Heck, in Dremel's case, ppl were making fun of them on their own customer's chat board. These comments are still there, without any explanation by Dremel about the ... hmmm, ... "smiling" pumpkin.
Re:it's not surprising they didn't fix it yet... (Score:2, Interesting)
While the above is a joke, there is actually some truth in it. The defacement nicely blends in with the overall color scheme, and may get overlooked by someone not specifically searching for it. Apparently, according to Heise, other parts of the defacement (the page about various companies having plagiarized the following line of SCO property: for (i = 0; i < 16; i++)) are already gone. It could indeed well be that nobody at SCO didn't notice the "enhanced" banner yet...
Re:that is elegant and leet... (Score:1, Interesting)
Not just SCO.com (Score:2, Interesting)
Either SCO has been hacked on seperate web servers (thescogroup.com was put up as alternative in case of DDos), they have a script that mirrors each other, or its SCO's new motto.
Take your pick.
I kinda like it being SCO's new motto. Shows their company attitude and policy imo.
Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along (Score:3, Interesting)
I disagree. It shows to me that either Sco no longer care about thier website or that the site is owned that they can't fix it.
Which brings into question the security in SCO.
Don't think it makes Linux users look like vandals. Just because a few might be acting the maggot doesn't mean every single user is the same. If that was the case every windows user would be a script kiddie spam master.
Re:strings on the graphic (Score:1, Interesting)
0655 PST - looks like they've restored it (Score:1, Interesting)
www.JoesLife.info [joeslife.info]
The Next Step... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:look at the blackboard in the background (Score:1, Interesting)
* Topic is 'Fuck slashdot. SCO rules. Fuck OSS. E-patents rule. Thanks.'
* Set by realloc on Mon Nov 29 09:58:54
Wrong.. Yet funny. (Score:3, Interesting)
And in a ironic twist, its hard to tell what was changed and what is marketing speak.
for example this gem, is it real or a joke?
Learn more about how you can become a part of SCO's Marketplace Initiative and generate new direct revenues by participating in development projects with SCO's Engineers
Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along (Score:2, Interesting)
Or maybe a Gimp user that knows how to use a hex editor.
Re:look at the blackboard in the background (Score:5, Interesting)
He was trying to tell them the weakness. (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Only business (Score:1, Interesting)
I have no idea what point you're trying to make.
When someone breaks into your house and steals your valuables it is, from their perspective, "business" and yes, that's their place of business, other people's homes.
The people upset with SCO, such as the one being answered further up the thread with the "only business" excuse believe SCO to be committing a fraud. Maybe they're wrong, go ahead and argue against them if you like, but saying "yeah, well, it's only business" is fucking stupid.
Suspicious timing (Score:5, Interesting)
SCO has a November 30 filing deadline in the IBM case, on the IBM counterclaims. That's tomorrow. SCO has to reply to IBM's "You violated the GPL and you can't use IBM's code in Linux any more" counterclaim. This is the day SCO has to provide legal arguments to back up their "the GPL is unconstitutional/illegal/irrelevant" claim. Which they're not going to be able to do successfully. That's not the news SCO wants heavily publicized.
So the timing here is suspiciously convenient for SCO.
Inside job?
Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along (Score:1, Interesting)
Fill out the web form - and voila! Page appears on the site.
Dremel's site was recently migrated to the parent company's server farm, but apparently without any real security review.
It's your classic cautionary tale. HTML comments & "secret" backdoor admin tools will burn your butt every time.
(Postin anonymously - you *know* they're reading this site now!)
Well ... (Score:4, Interesting)
Though I do expect that how much Darl paid for his license, is covered by a draconian non disclosure agreement, preventing you from ever revealing this information or any other arbitrary information that Sco may wish you to withold for the entire rest of your life. :D
Re:Screenshot Mirror (Score:2, Interesting)