Hackers, Meet Microsoft 496
Mz6 writes "The random chatter of several hundred Microsoft engineers filled the cavernous executive briefing center recently at the company's sprawling campus outside Seattle. Within minutes after their meeting was convened, however, the hall became hushed. Hackers had successfully
lured a Windows laptop onto a malicious wireless network. 'It was just silent,' said Stephen Toulouse, a program manager in Microsoft's security unit. 'You couldn't hear anybody breathe.' The demo was part of an extraordinary two days in which outsiders were invited into the heart of the Windows empire for the express purpose of exploiting flaws in Microsoft computing systems. The event, which Microsoft has not publicized, was dubbed 'Blue Hat' -- a reference to the widely known 'Black Hat' security conference, tweaked to reflect Microsoft's corporate color."
So, uh, during that hushed silence (Score:5, Funny)
Corporate Color (Score:5, Funny)
Must... not... make... obvious... BSOD comment.... aughhh!
How about 'Blue Screen' ? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Blue? (Score:5, Funny)
Puzzled: why get angry? (Score:5, Funny)
I would think they would be looking at their shoes.
Re:So, uh, during that hushed silence (Score:5, Funny)
SLow but steady, Microsoft rises from the ashes... (Score:3, Funny)
It's one thing to read about this on the internet - people say all sorts of things on the internet and you learn to tune it out ater a while.
But seeing it in front of your own very eyes, watching the hack attack commence in the blink of an eye, the pulse of a heartbeat, the shiver of a twitch, the essence of a raindrop, the flash of an instant, with the click of flint before it ignites the gunpowder in a Civil War era cannon-- etc-- it's shocking.
And so, ten years later, after learning from the hackers, their once-sworn enemies, the Great Microsoft rose to became Operating System: NWO. And that, my children, is the story of how Herr Syrs Bill Gates and Al Gore created and patented the internet.
Hey! (Score:5, Funny)
Hey, IBM is Mr. Blue! Microsoft is Mr. Pink!
Re:So, uh, during that hushed silence (Score:5, Funny)
More likely:
"How can we spin this from bad to good?"
I was sure it was green (Score:5, Funny)
- Peace
Silence of the Lambs (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So, uh, during that hushed silence (Score:5, Funny)
"That is a feature, not a bug"
Wait for it, Wait for it... (Score:4, Funny)
And a fatal error... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:HEY TIMOTHY! SUCK ANY MORE COCK TODAY! FAGGOT! (Score:0, Funny)
Colors explication: (Score:3, Funny)
Black hats do black magic
Blue hats do blue screens of death
Car Jokes? (Score:2, Funny)
"I'm also sure Ford wasn't too happy with (Ralph) Nader's reports in the late '60s," he said. "What do you mean you are telling people our cars can blow up?"
I wonder if Bill actually laughed the first time he read the microsoft car joke?
Re:So, uh, during that hushed silence (Score:1, Funny)
MOD PARENTS UP! (Score:1, Funny)
PS: You're a fag.
Re:2002 WTF? O.o or Why I Love SR-520 (Score:3, Funny)
Heck, they just released a bug fix for an IE bug that was already fixed, put back in by mistake (since it was still in IE), and refixed in Firefox
Wow, it's like watching paint dry.
Luckily for them hackers just go away on vacation in the intervening years between bug fixes
It was just silent... (Score:4, Funny)
And then some guy in the back stands up and starts yelling "Developers! Developers! Developers..."
Re:Can We Get Firefox Developers To Do This, Too? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:well, it's a start, but a late one (Score:4, Funny)
Re:well, it's a start, but a late one (Score:4, Funny)
Give them credit.
How many of 'em have sat in their lounge, constructing
a heap of crisp $100 bills from their annual bonus,
only to find it "overflowing" into the kitchen.
What REALLY happned... (Score:3, Funny)
M$ Exec 1: "Oh sh*t!!! We've got a security problem. One of our computers has been lured to a baaaaad network"
M$ Exec 2: "Crap. Wait, I know. Get MarComm on the phone. We'll tell the world we were running a test. We're finding flaws so we can fix them. Yeah, that's the ticket."
M$ Exec 1: "Good thinking! Maybe we should tell them to also release a statement that the BSOD is actually Microsoft's commitment to employee health. A soothing blue screen comes up, gently reminding employees to get up, stretch their legs, refocus their eyes..."
Re:Behold, the problem (Score:4, Funny)
Chill. I was there. You'd have liked it.
Re:Three ways to do things (Score:1, Funny)
2) The wrong way
3) The Max Power way*
* same as the wrong way, only faster
Homer J. Simpson
Re:So, uh, during that hushed silence (Score:4, Funny)
Re:So, uh, during that hushed silence (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Corporate Color (Score:3, Funny)
Thanks, we've already met (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, I see you're already well-aquanited!
Re:Blue? (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Getting through to engineers is hard (Score:4, Funny)
K.
Re:So, uh, during that hushed silence (Score:3, Funny)