Passed along without comment
I poisoned P2P networks for the RIAA - whistleblower
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 17/01/2003 at 13:00 GMT
Gobbles, the German hacker who improbably claimed to have infected
peer-to-peer file sharing networks and to 0wn your computer this week,
has
What's even more of a joke is that The Register published it,
when it was evident from the start that it was never true.
Totally sick of the clueless hyping so-called security news when
they don't even know what security is.
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:58:38AM -0800, Shon Elliott wrote:
And
This is not entirely hoax.
I know for sure (first-hand) that such actions were contemplated by at
least some recording companies.
--vadim
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
The feeling in the music community is that this is almost certainly a
hoax.
Of course, RIAA apparently
In the immortal words of blitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
From ISN:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28842.html
Wow. With one post to bugtraq, gobbles has now successfully trolled
the register, slashdot, and now nanog.
Somebody buy that turkey a beer.
-n
