Wednesday, June 18, 2003

psycho politician wants to destroy computers..
A US senator wants to develop new technology which would remotely destroy the computers of people who illegally download music tracks. Hackers have wanted to do the same thing to US senators (computers) for years, but haven't yet succeeded.

and Microsoft sue spammers Microsoft said on Tuesday it had filed lawsuits against 15 alleged spammers, accusing them of clogging its computers and those of its customers with more than two billion unsolicited e-mail messages. [what i reallly reallly don't understand is why they can't pay some real programmers to just block stuff coming from these 15 spammers]

and finally Slammed! An inside view of the worm that crashed the Internet in 15 minutes.
- basically a piece of ms software was reprogrammed by a virus to send out lots of packets of UDP (ie; another kind of data to tcpip) **** to other MS sql servers and (because of the amount of data,) swamped the internet. If you know assembly you can learn from the 376 bytes that took over the world. And all because c strings end with a 0. doh!

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