SCO hacked in apparent IP protest

SCO hacked in apparent IP protest
Lester Haines, The Register 2004-11-29

Visitors to SCO's website this morning were treated to a rare moment of corporate self-awareness after hackers apparently replaced an image linking to the undoubtedly scintillating "Extending Legacy Applications and Databases to the Web and Wireless Devices with SCOx Web Services Substrate" with a graphic bearing the rather more promising "We own all your code - pay us all your money":

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SCO hacked in apparent IP protest 2004-11-29
Anonymous (2 replies)

Why should they get a long imprisonment? They'd hardly get a slap on the wrist for spray painting that on their building. Why should web site defacement be worse? ...

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Anonymous

Welcome to what we brits call "sarcasm."...

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Anonymous

You know, that just might have been a joke. Suggest you get out a bit more....

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Anonymous (4 replies)

dudes .. how lame is this .. we hope that he is ashamed of himself(also might be herself... ladies) and we await his arrest .. i mean come on.. this almost sounds like the corniest article I have ever seen!

web-pages are getting defaced all the time, and now that the page of indeed the "we have wri...

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Anonymous

I'm baffled - isn't it blindingly obvious that the article is meant to be funny? Things can be funny without a laugh track and cream pies - trust me....

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Anonymous

I guess you dont know the registers style of humour.

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Anonymous

Maybe it's my witty sense of european humour but maybe they are being sarcastic :)...

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Anonymous UK

A lot of the Register stuf contains heavy sarcasm. This may have been intended as humour (i haven't read the full Reg article yet).

With SCO acting like an ass it must expect ridicule to arrive in many forms. I'm surprised they were open to wesite defacement though!...

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Anonymous

well i don't aprove this but i can say i understand.

the were claiming rights on source codes that was open source.

i can understand if people who are working for free and putting alot of time into linux are pissed off.

if i would see part mine live work being taken away i would be pissed o...

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