There's this big bug in the system and nobody's downloading the update. is this that IP stack glitch you were talking about? Worse. The kernel's not keeping memory safe when the glitch is exploited. Someone can use it to overwrite various parts of the kernel. Ouch. that's not good. *** bcdefg has joined #olympus Every computer on the Net is effected, right? Yeah. I have an exploit where it overwrites memory in the disk controller, causing garbage to be written to disk. It's trivial, only a matter of time before someone else figures this out. Could you send me a copy of the code? Who says I need code? ^_^ what, the existing shell tools do it? *nod* And from across the Net, too. Yeesh, nobody's safe. Well, you guys are. You patched your systems. *IPU`* bcdefg <-- do we know this guy? *I_AM* Of course. *Orrie* Absolutely. *IPU`* Yeah, but is he one of us? *I_AM* No. Wasn't this channel supposed to be locked? *Orrie* Sorry about that *** Orrie sets mode +i where can I get patches? bcdefg: kernel.org, where else? thx! I don't know whether to be honored that somebody's patching their system, or insulted that they don't know where the server is and came here to ask Heh how 2 xploit, btw? I'd lean towards "insulted" about now *sigh* its a tcp shell tool? ping? *snicker* tremble before the might of ping! *I_AM* Actually, kibo, you're not too far off *kibo* you can't be serious *I_AM* *nod* *kibo* you... can't be serious! lol *Orrie* ping? omfglmao! *IPU`* People use ping all the time. Why hasn't it broken before? *I_AM* Obscure flags, varying quantities... it took a while to find this. heheeh ping of death! *Orrie* Oh, boy. Ten sheckels says this dork will figure it out *kibo* cat's out of the bag *Orrie* We got 0-day exploitz bcdefg: How long do you expect to keep your job as file server administrator at Ur University if you go around crashing other peoples' machines? *I_AM* This is no laughing matter, guys *IPU`* If the exploit wipes out hard drives, the Net could permanently lose information *kibo* they'll just restore from backup *Orrie* Yeah, but who keeps backups? *I_AM* About as many people as patch their systems *Orrie* Goodbye pr0n, you were good to me they wont know its me. someone has to teach them to patch tehir systems anyway In such cases, "someone" is -- generally speaking -- me. IA: So you're going to go wiping out everyone's systems? cool, I'll make popcorn and we can watch the chaos together so no cracking? Yeah, no crackity-crack. We'll tell on you if you do your parents might ground you and you won't be able to go out on your first date they'll send you to bed without dessert They'll take away your crayons you might get a spanking He might enjoy it bcdefg: Could I ask you a favor? ... that shows up on your screen too? *IPU`* What are you thinking? No disrespect, of course. sure hehehe cool bcdefg: I'd like you to build an archive of every document on the Net from every protocol. *I_AM* We can't let unpatched systems stay on the Net without a backup while this exploit is out there. Eventually they'll get hit and we'll lose a piece of the Net forever. I'm going to send out a ping flood which will destroy all the unpatched servers. When they get back up with up-to-date software, they can restore from the archive. not sure if the Uni's servers are big enough They are. And you rooted Nineveh's system, so you have more than enough space. hehehe how did u no? might as well make a second backup there, in case the first fails for some reason then get 2 cps of everything in the arc? and for the really good stuff ;) ;) ;) make it seven copies :)