Makes damn good sense.

It calls back more than I would think necessary... I was doing some malware analysis last night and I mistook an outbound connection from explorer.exe to be the trojan launching a remote thread inside the process. I whois'd the IP to find it was a Microsoft block, completely unrelated to what I was doing, but it made me wonder why is explorer.exe calling back? and with what??

Great another vector. *fingers crossed* I hope they're sandboxing.

IMHO: Microsoft has been failing at mobile markets, it has openly stated that it doesn't see value in *pad/*tablet because it can't see it as being an irreplaceable entity. Well they jumped on the bandwagon too little and too late and now they have a real chance to gain power in new markets to make up for it. It's not news that the desktop market is still widely dominated by them but what will become evident (if isn't already blaringly obvious) is that the desktop is soon to see extinction. I don't mean that desktops will stop being used I'm saying you will be reading your slashdot from your tv, your phone, your pad, or perhaps another interface that has yet to be imagined/developed much more than that bulky thing under your desk. Anyway the new interfaces are being made now and if they have any sense they will make this tech cheaper (mass production) and start licensing with the next DVR installed in your house. I'm no fan of microsoft, but as a passive observer and a speculative commentator it seems almost too simple to me.

You wanna see my spaceship?

Wind Turbine Firm hack confirmed: "Oh wait, never mind. We found his rootkit on port 31337 going out from our webserver! D'oh!"

No actually if we weren't clicking the ads they wouldn't be giving us said ads. Some dumbass is clicking it, that's why they put it up there. Anyway, I think this guy has a great point: so much brain has towards goals that don't push the world further but perhaps hold us back. Finally some good material on slashdot to think over.

Now I'll have to watch Interstella 5555 now in 5+ parts with advertisements rather than in 1 medium quality Google Video stream :-(

I'm not a criminal. I'm just an observer of crimes and I find them interesting. These are only my observations. Nothing more.

The trick to being a successful criminal (or so i've read) is to assume that you will be caught and plan ahead: don't brag, have your harddrives encrypted and off when not in use, never use a handle associated with one you box from home, etc. But most importantly don't break anymore laws than you absolutely have to to gain your objective because each one furthers your sentencing. These just seem obvious but as the parent says people let their guard down when they think that no one will ever catch them.

Try reliably exploiting thousands of browsers on several different platforms and different environments to get at info. Or just send one well crafted email to a low-level employee of a company that controls the targeted information on a cloud and start a spear phishing campaign. Hrm.. Which is harder to do?

Made my day hearing this!

To boldly go where no man has gone before...

If you can read English then please replace then with than in the last sentence. Ok thanks bye