sco.com refusing connections

There is one fact that I take comfort in through all of this. It is the simple fact that the massive amount of learning, experimentation, and natural ability that is required to gain the skills needed to do something like this, tends to also instill the discipline and sense of responsibility to prevent misuse. Not every "Uber-Hacker" for lack of a better term is good, but most are.

I do believe that there will be massive virus/worm outbreaks in the future, whose size and complexities we cannot even fathom today. But when they come, they will be nothing more than an inconvenience, or simple setback. Money will be lost, computers will crash, people may even get hurt. But the internet is more than a network. It has become a connection shared throughout the world. The idea of a connected world is one that cannot be destroyed by viruses. The hardware can be hurt, but the internet will survive. Ideas cannot be destroyed.

Looks like their site is now reachable... but then again... its no longer the 1st... at least... where I am. (-5GMT)

http://www.sco.com is unreachable
http://sco.com has not problems.

it is kind of funny though, because they have quite a few links to http://www.sco.com/images/ and other links that contain the full domain, with the www included.

now where am i supposed to buy me linux licences for 699$ my servers are out of action till the site comes back up :(

umm, i work for sco, you can send me the 700 dollars, ill make sure the license is sent in the mail.

Were safe, RIGHT!!!.....Wait till the "bin-ladens" of the world figures out that disrupting the net is more devastating than a straight foreward attack!!

Opinions seem to range from "lolz SCO got teh 0wnz3d" to "Oh dear, i feel sorry for them. Viruses suck, etc etc". The latter group can tune out right about now.

As for the former, you kind of people make me sick. You hypocrites flaunt your anti cracking attitude in public whenever a script kiddie rears his ugly prepubescent head, but as soon as someones website gets attacked whom has wronged you in the past, all sympathy goes out the window. You bitch and moan about 'free speech', yet you systematically look down on those who have radically different viewpoints to you.

I honestly dont give a **** about the legal issues involved, and/or who is right/wrong. SCO is a company. What is the purpose of a company? To make money. Well **** ME, SCO is trying to make money - that is no excuse to constantly put them down. Hell, if you had the opportunity to screw every person you could out of $699, wouldnt you? If you say no, go tie yourself to a tree and save the prairie whales you ****ING HIPPY.

Anyways, i went off on a bit of a tangent there. Truth be known, i dont approve of SCOs actions. Oh well.

What i *meant* to say was dont you guys realize this virus is hurting you? Is hurting *us*? I imagine most of you inane ****wits get penis enlargment spam (you should probably take up one or five of them), among other things, and scream AT THE COMPUTER IN ABSOLUTE AGONY when you are forced to "check your spam for email". This virus is creating spam relays. Say what? Yes thats right, this virus SUPPORTS SPAMMERS. The whole SCO/Microshaft bullshit is just a front to divert attention from the virus' real, more sinister intentions.
Also, many media sources (online and other) have taken quotes from people like you ("lol virus is teh 1337 sco sucks **** kekekeke ^__^") and portrayed them as 'the viewpoint of the linux community'. Not only are you damaging your parents reputation for spouting such crap, you are providing SCO with ammunition. Isnt media hype wonderful?

That is my viewpoint. **** the virus, **** SCO, but especially,
**** those who think this is a good thing

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Abtronic
Have to agree with you even if I would have said it differently. Except for the f******** hippy statement. Either most of the people who support the worm don’t pay their connection or they haven’t really worked out how much it costs the community as a whole. Each user losses a bit of bandwidth, some processing power etc …. Add them all together and that is a **** load of resources being diverted. I don’t agree with SCO but I don’t want to pay to let someone else attack them.

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Worst case scenario: create a worm that on a specific day bombards "broadcasts" on subnets. How long before the Internet is down? or one that goes after the prime DNS servers?

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Ms Mittens

This already happened early last year . It wasn't very successfull though. There were some problmes for certain local ISP but the main Backbone of the internet surivived. The dangerous thing is it was the first to attempt to bring the internet down by attacking the main DNS servers. I am not sure but I think it failed becauce of a synch problem. Hard to get everyones computer to send at the exact same time.

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http://www.sco.com is unreachable
http://sco.com has not problems.

it is kind of funny though, because they have quite a few links to http://www.sco.com/images/ and other links that contain the full domain, with the www included.

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Interesting. Wonder why http://www.caldera.com was affected then?

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This already happened early last year . It wasn't very successfull though.

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That's right. I forgot. I was trying to think of a wide-spread example of something that if hit would majorly affect the Internet. At this point, I guess there really isn't any one target but rather lots of multiple targets.

This link i found seems relevent.

http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/[email protected]