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- sirber, on 10/11/2007, -0/+117From: not China
To: America
Subject: Not a virus!
Attachement: runme.exe
Hi
This is not a virus. Please run as administrator. - WaterDragon, on 10/11/2007, -5/+57They found it. It's called Vista.
- Braingoo, on 10/11/2007, -7/+45because as we all know its impossible to write malicious code for an open source platform.
/Sarcasm - Kamill85, on 10/11/2007, -1/+39ProofOfWMDsInIraq.txt .exe
fixed* - WaterDragon, on 10/11/2007, -2/+37FTA:
"China isn't alone in building the capability to attack an enemy's computer systems. The U.S. and other countries have developed similar abilities."
Attack and destroy computers? The US is already way ahead of everyone else, having given to the world the Windows operating system! - JohnnyXmas, on 10/11/2007, -0/+33I'm not worried, I've got Norton protecting me!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+34ProofOfWMDsInIraq.txt.exe
- Mejogid, on 10/11/2007, -4/+34Why's everyone so surprised by this? The US's has almost definately been doing the same thing for a while now - doesn't anyone remember the accusation's of an NSA backdoor in Windows?
- scottjw, on 10/11/2007, -1/+25RedFlag linux more likely.
- mlw4428, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17"From: not China
To: America
Subject: Not a virus!
Attachement: free_porn.exe
Hi
This is porn. Please view as an administrator."
Fixed. - BillyWells, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16"Bravo team, move out!"
*click* *click*
*click* *click* - Ethion, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15.rtf?
- Ransomowris, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15They're cylons!
- Anonymous3, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14Damn you CnC Generals for portraying a realistic image of chinese computer users!
- estacado, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11And do what? They are a well connected country themselves. Whatever they do will surely have an effect on themselves.
- oriondarkwood, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11I am not surprised, in the past as well as the future. Wars have been decided not by men or machine but by information. As we move towards a more connected world and a more information driven society. What best way to affect the country or counties you are trying to invade that to attack what they hold most dear.. the ability to obtain information. Deny the enemy information and you blind him..
Its one of the 3 golden rules of warfare
1. Strike hard and fast, without warning so that your enemy has no option but to retreat or surrender
2. Blind your enemy by denying him access to information. Allow him free access to mis-information
3. Cause him to lose trust in himself, in his comanrdes and his cause. Without trust or will the war is already won - nicobat02, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Don't worry people, we got the digg army ready to deliver a denial of service to the Chinese.
- SpaceMonkeyZero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Hey my default settings in Win95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista doesn't think I need to see an filename extension. So this not-a-virus.txt must just be only a text file!
- skoober, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9"The"
- DocHoliday22, on 10/11/2007, -15/+24"The People's Liberation Army (PLA) continues to build cyberwarfare units and develop viruses to attack enemy computer systems as part of its information-warfare strategy, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) warned in a report released on Friday."
Since this was issued by the DOD it must be true just like why we went to war in Iraq is all true. I say we bomb them till their computer screens run a BSOD. - SpaceMonkeyZero, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9The one spelled with an s.
- Hervard, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8These Weapons of Mass Destruction cannot be displayed
http://japester.ucc.asn.au/humour/womd/ - Malovech, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8The era of Neuromancer is now fully upon us.
- Topher06, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11The Engrish is too good, not from china.
If it was from China, it would say:
"Is not the virus. Runs makes the management." and the virus would be runsi.exe. - heavyal, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7You can 'send' as much malicious junk to Linux as you can any Windows system. There are several differences though:
* Windows binaries (thus windows viruses) do not natively function on Linux
* A Linux user runs in a user space that does not normally allow direct interaction with the core of the system, thus any damage a prospective virus could do would be limited to the permissions of the given user.
* Linux Binaries that are received via email, download, or similar means by default have to actually have their executable 'flag' set before they can actually do anything. This adds another layer of interaction on the users part - a virus writer would have to socially engineer his prey into changing those flags so that the virus could be launched - implausible at best.
* Finally, as someone else mentioned, as an open source project, Linux benefits from having many eyes on it that are interested to a great degree on simply having a solid operating system on which to work day to day. Thus it is most beneficial to them to correct, or submit for correction any bug, hole, or other naughtiness that could cause a glitch in their ability to work efficiently.
There are more reasons than that, and there have been numerous articles written on the subject. Remember, Google is your friend. - lopla, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7"They drew 1st virus"
-Techbo - c0re1337, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Maybe now I can enlist in the military as a cyber-soldier! Fighting for your freedoms on the internet.
- sirber, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7.txt.exe is so 1990 ;)
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6You can. It's just that since it's open source, if there is a hole, everyone sees it, and someone usually fixes it very quickly. Closed source programs often have to wait until people in the company discover the holes, since they're the only ones allowed to change it or even look at the source.
- ShutYrDiggMouth, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6our entire defense dept system is connected to the internet? wtf?
- knomevol, on 10/11/2007, -9/+14take the intelligence the chinese govt is using to put together their cyberwarfare units, combine that with the deadly non-virtual weapons and their utter lack of humanity for even their own citizens...
there is a scenario worthy of a "world war" moniker: III.
meanwhile the US is expending all its resources in a "global war on terror" - not even naming an enemy, leaving him a ghost, headed off in sandy directions making no headway whatsoever in bringing peace to this effort....
when in the end perhaps the US should be paying greater heed their stock in realization of china's deadly zealousness. - cmburns69, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Good heavens, we ARE doomed!
- mlw4428, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Seizure meds wear off?
- dkirkham, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4That's psychological warfare isn't it?
- trghpy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4@docholiday22
There is a difference between the DOD putting out a report and the President claiming that a report is worthy of going to war over.
Our current selection of government leaders is more interested in profiting off the Internet than protecting it.
What bothers me is that we're just a knee-jerk reaction away from a nerd vs government cyber war. - SoundJudgment, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Isn't it funny how this 'report' comes out, and gets Dugg up on a Webpage that is filled with 'Microsoft Forefront' advertisements? ;)
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6"The Defense Department reports China is building cyberwarfare units and developing viruses."
Which Defence Department? - stklaw, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Chances of infection raise a lot for having the word "porn" in the filename
- codeninja42, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Damn, it's like we're all starting to live in a William Gibson book...
- fatpads, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The picture that paints in my head is hilarious.
- buddyfarr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3@drjekelmrhyde -
right, just after the sats start getting shot down your entire country would get nuked. good plan! let me know how that goes. do you really think that you can shoot down all the sats before the US launches? I don't think so. - dwiezel, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5The problems with china are primarily its communist ideology, its long history and culture mired in lying, deceiving and stealing inspired by sen sui (the art of war) and ingrained at every level of society, its lack of regard for human rights and the rights of the individual and the health and welfare of its people.
Until the communists are taken out of power and the country becomes a representative democracy (maybe never), china will continue to be a danger to the world.
As such, they should not be allowed to have access to anymore technology created by the Western Nations.
We should not let them steal anymore than they already have and that means we must begin to reduce and restrict bidirectional trade with china and put greater controls on the export of technology to every country because their spies (and thieves) are everywhere. - jimosity, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Jack Bauer will save us.
- longbow486, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2the scary thing is china has already tested a system for this
- dwiezel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2@lipsynch
Very original. I wish I had thought of a format of expression like yours.
This is not about the USA, this is about the threat that communist china represents to the USA and the world.
If you are so naive and ignorant not to see the apparent then none of us on Digg can help you.
Your weak response has only informed me that you some red-diaper-baby-commie-fascist-leftist of the vast left wing conspiracy!
Or, perhaps you are a chineses communist spy trying to influence thoughts and opinions on Digg.
Hmmm... - fatlip, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2i swear to god it took me like 10 seconds to figure out what the word 'readying' was
- SpaceMonkeyZero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I for one welcome the return of CYBER into the vocabulary over the late 90's e- and current i- prefix.
the iPhone is old news... I want a CYBERphone! - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3They have taken 100 times more jobs than Taiwan, and the quality from Taiwan is usually better.
- damage78, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2@shutyrdiggmouth: You have no idea what you're talking about.
- dixonHill, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
-- Eric S. Raymond in "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus's_law -
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