There's been a development

Zotob, a computer hacker, recently posted a guide on how to bypass certain things on a windows 2000 system and within a few hours of them posting several worms hit the internet with a quickness. The exploit used shuts down the computer within 60 seconds and the computer keeps rebooting. 5 variations of this worm are out as of right now. Since then Zotob has been listed as a "Malicious Hacker". He may or may not be a malicious hacker but I can say that for him posting the guide to it doesn't make him a malicious hacker. He's just teaching and spreading knowledge much like I do.

Here's to you Zotob, Cheers Mate!

Theres also been a few things to legally happen recently that make things harder on computer savvy people. With the recent safe intersections act of 2005 outlawing illegal MIRTs and traffic pre-emption devices to the court cases of certain conglomerate media production companies the time of minor infractions is over. ISPs are required to have backdoors so the government can tap in.

It used to be that the average someone would download a gig, maybe 2, of mp3s but with the way things are getting a hate for the riaa and mpaa are fueling the fire of the battle so that if someone does get sued they won't have just 200-300 songs. We figure if we're going down we're taking everything with us. IRC has been around forever and has been the foremost at aiding in the spread of illegal movies and music albums and yet no major company has attacked it yet. Instead they attack bullshit programs Napster, Morpheus, Limewire, Bearshare, Emule, and above all now...BitTorrent.

Also a brood of phishing, spyware, keyloggers, trojans, etc. have been sent out recently. Usually when a worm hits it's followed by a slew of random other attacks which, in turn, would be masked by the worm. Since the pc would be fucked the person who uses the computer would not notice a slight difference in hard drive space used. I bet you could take away a gig of room on their computer and they wouldn't notice a thing.

How do you know it's getting that bad? When Newgrounds houses a game called "Defend Your Computer"


Well, it's just another day and another problem. School starts back up for me in less than a week. That sucks but I'll keep posting on here. Hopefully I can come up with some good material so I won't have to just toss out my opinions on crap. If you want to know about something feel free to drop me a line and ask questions, I'm happy to answer questions. I'll post on the blog answering so everyone can see it.

AK