On 3 Mar 2002 at 9:04, Optimizzin Al-gorithym wrote: > Steve Griffin > StreamCast/Morpheus CEO > Continued... > > http://www.musiccity.com/ > > It appears that the attacks included an encrypted message > being repeatedly sent directly to your computers that > changed registry settings in your computer. Later, it appears > our ad servers were attacked resulting in messages being > sent to other sites without our knowledge, which threatened > our most basic revenue model. We believe some of these > attacks continue as Morpheus users attempt to connect to > the old Morpheus User Network. This was why it is important > to quickly deploy our new software product. >
Why it's important to stop using the old product anyway. Given the security problems that existed in the old version which they had time to look at, I'm not sure how much confidence it's reasonable to have in the safety of using this emergency release. In fact, if not for the graph in Al's other post, I'd say only the hardiest of fools would be sufficently foolhardy to be among the first testers of this new version. But apparently there's no shortage of fools. Learn something new every day. In a related issue, slashdot reports that MusicCity is apparently violating their licence from gnucleus by not releasing the source for their client. Seems to me that releasing this would be a good idea anyway, as it would go a long way toward assuring users that the client is ok. George
