The Nowhere Men

The Nowhere Men
George Smith, 2003-05-12

Unemployed virus writers take heart: the recording industry is hiring cyber miscreants to attack its own customers. And we thought you'd never amount to anything.

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The Nowhere Men 2003-05-12
Anonymous (2 replies)

This would be great. The RIAA would be sued and prosecuted in so many juristicions they might actually go bankrupt.

Of course, it's much more likely that it's just propaganda; they must have noticed how illegal this is. Scare the litle people into believing downloading mp3s will destroy their com...

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The Nowhere Men 2003-05-12
Anonymous

I am not certain if it has passed yet, but a bill has been introduced to make this leagal....

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The Nowhere Men 2003-05-14
An Angry Anonymous Coward

Premise: I don't really download any music at all because my main interest is classical/baroque music and I have all of that on CD.

But...

I have an Apple Mac G4, run OSX, have a 10 mbit/sec NATed connection and live in Italy. I'm curious what the RIAA thinks it can do against me, or people li...

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The Nowhere Men - NY Times - no sources 2003-05-13
Anonymous

The NY Times article quoted here does not name a single verifiable source. Is the author using the Gobbles hoax as the source? (I wrote to them, asking, and got no response.) Until there is some verifiable source for putting viruses in MP3s (which should be impossible, since MP3 has no executable co...

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Excellent 2003-05-13
xenophi1e <oliver.lavery@sympatico.ca>

Great piece. VCL was one of the more interesting things to happen in the pre-internet days, nice to know NuKE and the 514 scene still have some infamy.

One of the interesting consequences of commercial viruses like this, imho, is how easily they could be re-purposed for even more malevolent uses ...

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...let me guess... 2003-05-14
An Angry Anonymous Coward

Let us assume first that someone is clever enough to insert x86 platform-specific code into MP3 files, a very big "if". There was a buffer overflow condition in a version of Winamp many months ago that could allow this kind of thing, though the space was limited. Let us also assume that this genius ...

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