, 2004-06-02
With the consumer WiFi explosion, launching a virus into the wild has never been easier and more anonymous than it is today.
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Virus companies hire virus writers
2004-06-04
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wifi and a good time was had by all
2004-06-05
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If you two jealous spammers who insulted x were paying attention to the content instead of getting tripped up in your jealousy because the triggerword "skill" was spoken, then you might have learned something. Did you two even know amps existed or that they were available to boost a 2.4ghz signal? And how much thought have you "13 year old" wizards put into antiforensics and detecting wifi honeypots? I would bet good money neither of you braniacs have even thought to use random mac addresses, filter or inject false network traffic to make yourself look like a win32 box (oh wait, you are windows users aren't you), own the router, or tried even the most basic tests to see if you weren't in a honeynet. (let alone have the forethought to tunnel/encrypt all of your traffic with vpn homebrewed or otherwise).
You pathetic cowards post anonymously and attack the author of the post personally instead of addressing *any* of the content. Only anonymity has kept you from being owned and rm'd today.
On a general note... how many of you folks out there have seen some dialog where the person doing the flaming and insulting uses terms like "LOL", "NOOB", "PWNT" and so on? What is particular sad, is that these are terms have only come into mainstream use in the past few years, and clearly show the age of the posters. Folks who have been around for awhile know that LOL is the sickening bane of AOL and the kiddies. NOOB is a lamer term invented by lamers, to describe people *they* think are lame. etc. Their very language betrays their own skillset. If the best response you can think of to someone's post is "LOL" "OMG" then seriously kids, do us all a favor and just keep quiet.
One more thing, not about flaming, but about the article. virus!=worm. A virus infects an executable, so to "spread" the virus, you are basically uploading a file and hoping someone will run it. Where is this attacker uploading their file to? The nature of P2P means they would have to remain online for a long period of time until others had full copies. Usenet? Forums? Or was the author referring to network-borne threats like worms that are network aware?
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