Ever
notice an increase in defaced sites not running Windows?
Well, the amount of defaced
sites that are not on a Windows platform shows that hackers are
bored with NT, and see no challenge in it. A hacker calling
himself "tokachu" is one of these hackers. Nearly all of his
site hacks had nothing to do with a Microsoft exploit, and none of
his defacements took place on a Windows server.
However,
"tokachu", while snooping around Microsoft's server during it's
infamous hack,
had uncovered archives of plans to partner with Time/Warner, and
their plans to eventually control all forms of media. (Note:
it has been shown that tokachu was not responsible for the original
hack)
One of these plans, theoretically, was to release
children-oriented cartoons with subliminal messages in the speech
convincing viewers that resistance to the movement was futile.
Some of the shows included Digimon, Pokemon, and Dragon Ball Z.
To prevent any interference from the US DOJ, Microsoft and
Time/Warner decided to fake a "competition" between each
other. The supposed competition farce worked.
Worse yet, an artificial-intelligence algorithm, developed by
Microsoft from 1990 to 1999, was "released" on the Internet in early
2001. The AI acted like a virus, finding multiple forms to
spread across systems. It is estimated that 84% of all
computers connected to the Internet are infected with some form of
the AI.
What the fuck?
"I think it's insane that such a
preposterous assumption be committed to either reputation of
Microsoft or Time/Warner," said Steve Case, president and CEO of
America Online. "It's almost as bad as that 'hack rumor' that
convinced people that their AOL accounts were being stolen.
Password changes and accidental charges to their credit card
accounts were merely a result of bad programming from companies we
are not affiliated with."
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Microsoft's operating systems are
among the most widely used. Nearly 100% of people who used a
computer have used a Microsoft operating system.
IDC pegs Windows NT as holding about a 38 percent share of the
shipments of server software in 1999. Linux captured a 24 percent
share of shipments, Netware held 19 percent, and Unix had a combined
market share of 15 percent. IDC research figures for 2000 have yet
to be released.
Proof that Windows 2000 "insecurities" were purposely programmed
in can be seen in this
archived image from Microsoft.
"There is a trade-off if you make it very easy to develop
applications to deploy them, sometimes you may take some shortcuts
in security," Kusnetzky said.
Still, security experts agreed that the methodology used by
Attrition.org needs to be studied more closely before drawing any
conclusions.
"What this shows us is that all systems continue to have security
problems," said Matt Bishop, an associate professor of computer
science at the University of California at Davis. "That's why we are
all banging our heads against a wall."
