Maybe I've discovered a malicious .NET Easter Egg! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon O'Riordan" <voluntar...@btopenworld.com> To: "Dorset Linux User Group" <dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk> Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 8:08 PM Subject: Re: [Dorset] Changing the Boot Order with grub2
>I have a utility that strips data bytes out of a bitmap. It doesn't have a > problem with any bitmap except those found by a Google image search of > Starbucks, or files with Starbucks in the name. > You can convert any of these files quite freely between > forms(GIF,TIFF,JPG,BMP) or edit the image in Paint or Gimp. > I had use windows at this stage because VS is a quick way to set up a > programme that reads BMP and strips down the data. > With Starbucks files I can't even get the byte stream running to read the > header. There is some kind of compression or encryption that only affects > Starbucks images. It was running for a week before this happened. > Next stage is to revert to ansi stdio.h functions and see if they are > defeated too. > Crazy but true! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Carlyle-Clarke" <j...@wormdrive.net> > To: "Dorset Linux User Group" <dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk> > Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 7:29 PM > Subject: Re: [Dorset] Changing the Boot Order with grub2 > > >> Simon O'Riordan wrote: >>> If anybody wants to get really angry, I've got some news about >>> Starbucks; >>> if >>> you do an image search for Starbucks, you find that any conversion to >>> bitmap >>> is protected from binary read at the stream buffer level. It is only >>> Starbucks images, and it is obvious that there is protected data in any >>> Starbucks file. >>> Whether this is copyright protection or something more sinister is open >>> to >>> question. >>> >>> >> >> joh...@liberator:~$ wget >> http://starbucks.co.uk/IntlCMS/images/headers/header_logo1.gif >> --2009-11-01 19:26:42-- >> http://starbucks.co.uk/IntlCMS/images/headers/header_logo1.gif >> Resolving starbucks.co.uk... 12.129.19.148 >> Connecting to starbucks.co.uk|12.129.19.148|:80... connected. >> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK >> Length: 3231 (3.2K) [image/gif] >> Saving to: `header_logo1.gif' >> >> 100%[======================================>] 3,231 10.6K/s in >> 0.3s >> >> 2009-11-01 19:26:48 (10.6 KB/s) - `header_logo1.gif' saved [3231/3231] >> >> joh...@liberator:~$ convert header_logo1.gif header_logo1.bmp >> joh...@liberator:~$ ristretto header_logo1.bmp >> >> >> >> It looks OK to me. What did I miss? >> >> >> -- >> Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-11-03 20:00 >> Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ >> Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset >> List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset > > > -- > Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-11-03 20:00 > Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset > List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-11-03 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
