Scumware dude interviewed by Washington post, uncovered by slashdot

Bill · 2006-02-21, 02:15 PM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...021401342.html

"At the moment, 0x80 controls more than 13,000 computers in more than 20 countries. This morning he installs spyware on just a few hundred of the 2,000 PCs that he has commandeered in the last few hours. He will stagger the remaining installations throughout this day and into the next, using a program he wrote that automates the process. If he installs too many bundles of spyware at once, the online marketing companies, "get suspicious, they cut me off, and I don't get paid," he mumbles, squinting at the screen while the nub of his cigarette sprinkles ashes all over his laptop and the coffee table. "I've learned not to get greedy."

But apparently the interviewer left the metadata in the photo, they uncovered his hometown on slashdot

"Just get the jpeg showing the laptop keyboard. It's full of meta tags. And most interesting:

SLUG: mag/hacker
DATE: 12/19/2005
PHOTOGRAPHER: Sarah L. Voisin/TWP
id#: LOCATION: Roland, OK
CAPTION:
PICTURED: Canon Canon EOS 20D
Adobe Photoshop CS2 Macintosh 2006:02:16 15:44:49 Sarah L. Voisin

And Google for the town; pop 3000. Any flatfoot could find him in an hour.

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?s...0&cid=14748871

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Politicians _need_ someone to blame - they need a witch to burn or a communist to imprison, some way to distract the rubes and yokels from the fact that the politicians aren't doing anything useful.

So, if we give the politicians the spammers and scumware hackers, they will be just as happy as if they had a hundred mom-and-pop porners to crucify.

2006-02-21, 02:15 PM	#1
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	Scumware dude interviewed by Washington post, uncovered by slashdot http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...021401342.html "At the moment, 0x80 controls more than 13,000 computers in more than 20 countries. This morning he installs spyware on just a few hundred of the 2,000 PCs that he has commandeered in the last few hours. He will stagger the remaining installations throughout this day and into the next, using a program he wrote that automates the process. If he installs too many bundles of spyware at once, the online marketing companies, "get suspicious, they cut me off, and I don't get paid," he mumbles, squinting at the screen while the nub of his cigarette sprinkles ashes all over his laptop and the coffee table. "I've learned not to get greedy." But apparently the interviewer left the metadata in the photo, they uncovered his hometown on slashdot "Just get the jpeg showing the laptop keyboard. It's full of meta tags. And most interesting: SLUG: mag/hacker DATE: 12/19/2005 PHOTOGRAPHER: Sarah L. Voisin/TWP id#: LOCATION: Roland, OK CAPTION: PICTURED: Canon Canon EOS 20D Adobe Photoshop CS2 Macintosh 2006:02:16 15:44:49 Sarah L. Voisin And Google for the town; pop 3000. Any flatfoot could find him in an hour. http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?s...0&cid=14748871 --- Politicians _need_ someone to blame - they need a witch to burn or a communist to imprison, some way to distract the rubes and yokels from the fact that the politicians aren't doing anything useful. So, if we give the politicians the spammers and scumware hackers, they will be just as happy as if they had a hundred mom-and-pop porners to crucify.