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- whiteguysamurai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Maybe it means Kitsap Peninsula, home to america's largest submarine base and nuclear stockpile.
- michaelstone, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Well, maybe it's just a new application for KDE...
- kramer3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I'm still trying to understand the damn title
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8for those wondering wtf is this winny thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winny
anime and jpop/rock fans can get lots of good stuff there - michaelstone, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11I'll give you a hint. Read the first three letters of Winny. Then read the wikipedia article.
- puffarthur, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11"Perhaps most embarrassing have been the leaks from Japan's Self-Defense Forces, including data on surface-to-air missile tests and details of "Battle Scenario Training" for a simulated crisis on a transparently code-named "K Peninsula.""
K-Peninsula... gee I wonder what that code name could be for. Couldn't be KOREAN PENINSULA, because that would be too obvious and they would have thought of a better code name, right? haha. I wonder if the supposed North Korean Army's hacker team put the virus together. Can't trust those commies.
The Japanese should stop using this Winny thing and embrace bittorrent. - the_penguin_boy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7What is with this rash of poor title wording lately? English learn you any of did?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"State secrets Japan unveiled due to virus"
'Japan unveils state secrets due to virus' or 'Virus unveils Japan's state secrets' would have been alot clearer - elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9It's not WIndows's fault. It's their fault for being freaking morons.
- RatBagu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5^I agree with him, even though at first I assumed Korea.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/facility/bangor.htm - GhostFreeman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Winny is a notable Anonymous P2P client, and as such has gained some notariety for considerably subjective and illegal material.
- jayf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The Winny creator is also making a new service/app it apeears...
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20060321p2a00m0na029000c.html - tylerni7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Hey... I have an idea... let's open up some ports for file sharing and download some P2P sharing application. It's not like they'll get the top secret data on my laptop... no siree...
- stoops, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I wish someone would just write a virus to remove Windows and ALL of its closed ass source code. Oh yea, and install Linux after a complete re-write of random data to the hard drive.
- cyberdork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yes yes, of course it's Korea, but just to show off geography knowledge: What's the name of the Russian peninsula to Japan's north? Kamchatka
- ViperDaimao, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Maybe they were hoping that most people wouldnt know the english translation started with the letter K? yeah maybe not.
- emostar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I saw on the news the other night that Kaneko had a plan to fight the virus, but is still uncertain due to his legal situation. But it is nice to see on a major Tokyo station about how his being arrested is causing a slowdown in the patch.
@Jonnybin123: People took the their work home and had Winny on their home computer. Read the ***** article before you post a comment. - Aooogah, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Awww, no Gundam?
- ISVDamocles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If they can make zombies with a virus, surely they can make people more suggestible to persuasion...
- rnelsonee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Ugh, I need to turn in my nerd card. Took me until "fle sharing program" before I realized it's not a real/biological virus. I'm like "how can state secrets be unveiled by people getting sick?".
- saska, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think Symantec lists it as of 2003, to be technical. It's not exactly new news, but apparently it got a bunch of press today.
- SpacePirate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No, those particular plans are kept on their secure servers on Side Three.
- Simply_J, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The problem here isn't that Antinny is a sophisticated, unstoppable virus, it's over a year old!
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.antinny.ax.html
The problems were:
1) Not running up to date anti virus software and firewalls.
2) Bringing classified/sensitive information with you to work on at home! On an unsecure PC!
This is all Information Assurance 101. I thought that the Japanese were tech savvy than this. - fullback, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What's more interesting is that police, doctors, pilots and even defense people have downloaded a file-sharing program on their home computers -- a program that has thrown the creator in criminal court. Such irony.
- crapiolio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1^ A bit too much Resident Evil, no?
- jackmarlin, on 09/04/2009, -0/+1Japan down due to virus!!
http://www.aviashoes.org/ - adamblang, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2State secrets of Japan unveiled due to virus
In Japan, a new computer virus is on the loose named "Antinny." The virus spreads itself trough a file sharing program called "Winny." Antinny has already gotten ahold of secret codes for secure places in airports, phone numbers from TV stars, etc. - inepted, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This kind of virus is old, typically spreads by a exe that LOOKS like a folder, and when you double click it infects the system. I don't know if this is a new type of the same thing, but its been around. Users that aren't completely computer illiterate never get infected, most of the 'victims' in this case were looking for a couple mp3s and probably their buddy told them about the app but not about the virus threat.
- jayf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I live in Japan and can account for the computer illiteracy here.
Most people hate PCs and its only recently with the advent of
convergence and digital photography that they've gotten a
foothold out of the office environment.
Abe himself suggests not installing Winny as the best defense and
given the current circumstances he's right. Even idiots can't get
infected through Winny if they don't install it. It's sort of like
abstenence for guys who frequent skank-parlors. - cgy01, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Japan unveiled due to virus"
- cyberbeing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Interesting read, I never knew that Antinny was that bad.
Antinny is one of those virus that stores itself in archives as a small exe file(s). If you are dumb enough to extract it and open the exe then you get the virus. So if you scan all the archives you download and don't open any small exe files you should be fine.
Share is the other major P2P app in Japan that was made as a successor to Winny (after development on Winny stopped) but it doesn't have as strong of a user base. - Legion303, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Antinny is "new" now?
- unitedstatians, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Arguably the biggest winny-related leak however, is that of the Okayama Prefectural Police Force, whose computer leaked data on around 1,500 investigations. This information included sensitive data; such as the names of sex crime victims, and is the largest amount of information held by police to have leaked online."
holy ***** this so freaking interesting i want know more
downloading WinNY right now............let see if my hardware/software Firewall is strong enough - silfo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1that just means you played risk
- hansdg1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3good assumption
- Jonnybin123, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Are some security systems so terrible, a virus can surpass all this stuff and get all this information? I mean, so much importan information is kept on computers these days, if somebody hacked the government's computers, who know what will happen?
Silly Japanese. - ChanningT, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5I bet they were running windows...
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