Sober Attack on 87th Anniversary of the Nazi Party

Jack writes "ITO is reporting that Sober is scheduled to attack on January 2006 - the data coincides with the 87th anniversary of the Nazi party: "The next planned widespread of 2005's most prolific e-mail worm, Sober, is scheduled to start on January 5, 2006 based on commands hard-coded within the worm. The attack date coincides with the 87th anniversary of the Nazi party.""

summaries

[Anonymous Coward]

These summaries are getting worse and worse.
If you only have two sentences, leave it at that! You don't need to put them in the summary twice in the hopes nobody will notice.

Why are these people so attracted to the Nazis?

[neo]

I mean they had really cool looking uniforms but there's no connection between their philosophies and what these people seem to want. Look up Fascism [wikipedia.org] people! You virus writers won't actually like it. Honest!

Anniversary of Nazi Party... So what?

[Golgafrinchan]

So it coincides with the 87th anniversary of the Nazi party. What does that have to do with anything?

The linked article doesn't imply Sober has anything to do with Nazism. Was the Sober writer a Neo-Nazi? If so, it would've made much more sense to include this in the article or submitter's comments so the "Nazi anniversary" comment would mean something.

You know what else happens on 5 January 2006? This guy [imdb.com] turns 75. Maybe the Sober writer also hates The Godfather! Who knows?

I've never been partial to birthdays

[rodoke3]

I think a more appropriate date would be February 27 [wikipedia.org]. The date that led to the total 0wnage of Weimar Germany.

Coincides has the same root as Coincidence

[killtherat]

Are we sure that they writer of this worm was a neo-nazi? Because otherwise, it is probably a coincidence. I mean, if you look at the whole of human history, every day could probably be the anniversary of some terrible tragedy. We could end up saying things like "Oh no, this worm attack date coincides with the 193rd anniversary of the start of the war of 1812"

Re:Why are these people so attracted to the Nazis?

[tnk1]

I mean they had really cool looking uniforms but there's no connection between their philosophies and what these people seem to want. Look up Fascism people! You virus writers won't actually like it. Honest!

Oh they wouldn't mind it so much, they'll just make sure that they are the ones doing it to other people. I can't imagine the Nazis would have liked certain of their theories applied to themselves.

When your culture calls for tall blond Nordic types and your Leader is a short, brown haired guy who looks like Charlie Chaplin, you have to ascribe to the view that some discrepencies are just fine, as long as you are the one defining the rules and have a lot of stormtroopers with guns to keep it that way.

No mention of the Operating System???

[Burz]

Editors, please add the relevant info. Many of us do not use Windows and end up wasting time checking a virus' background every time a vague alert is posted on Slashdot.

Again... please specify the OS!

No kidding

[paranode]

I mean, lots of stuff happened on January 5th [wikipedia.org].

They could be celebrating the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit! Or the first PC by Hewlett Packard! Maybe the birth of Marilyn Manson! Lots of possibilities... or maybe, just maybe... it has no meaning.

Re:Why are these people so attracted to the Nazis?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sure there is a connection. Both groups (the virus programmers and the political elite) do business by force. With either, your natural right (god-given if you prefer) to freedom of choice is oppressed and stolen.

Obviously, both groups are against individual liberty and free will; otherwise they would respect it. Same goes for any thief, murderer, rapist, con artist, or politician. The type of government doesn't matter: either you do business by force, or you do business by voluntary association. Government, of course, is the organization which attempts to hold a monopoly on the initiation of force as a business model. (That is the only objective, absolute definition of government.)

By contrast to both groups, the peaceful man does business by voluntary association. So yes, there most definitely is a connection there.

Re:No kidding

[Anonymous Coward]

Lots of possibilities... or maybe, just maybe... it has no meaning.

Or maybe, just maybe, for a worm used to send nazi spam [atsnn.com] it has.

Re:No kidding

[Anonymous Coward]

There's a 0.274% chance that any event in history happened on the 5th January. I guess the media doesn't get this, nor the fact that no-one celebrates the 87th anniversary of anything. If anything, it says more about the importance of this specific event to the reporter than anything else... my guess is it's just some coder's birthday or somesuch.

Re:Why are these people so attracted to the Nazis?

[saforrest]

Also, keep in mind that in 1938 that the Nazi party and Hitler were fairly new, and were not yet seen as that bad. Germany's economy was just coming out of the sewer. In 1938, Hitler introduced the world to the Volkswagon Beetle, the most popular car in the world, and one that went without major redesign for many years. It was not until the end of 38 that Hitler started doing what he is known for today.

Yes, clearly in 1938 the Nuremberg Laws, the forced sterilization of Gypsies and the handicapped, the re-armament of the Rhineland, the outright assassination of political opponents, and the firebombing of Guernica by the German Condor Legion all paled in the eyes of the world besides the amazing achievement of the Volkswagen Beetle.

Please, learn some goddamned history so you can make some more informed dumbass comments. The thirties in Europe was an armed camp, divided between Communism, Fascism, and everyone else forcefully suppressing either from taking over their country. He wasn't some fairytale poster boy who just randomly went bad; though I've never read it, I understand that the size of his ambition is evident in Mein Kampf, written long before 1938.