Re: Which group will be turned into a smouldering crater first (ACV or AUK)?

4Q wrote:
> kurt wismer wrote:
>> 4Q wrote:
>> gee, paul, is the great 4q getting tired of them too?
>
> Oi! Address me as "The Mighty 4Q" or "4Q the Great" and no
> I'm not getting tired of them. They are now part of the ACV
> archives and will go into the chronicals giving us 'archivers'
> more information.
>
> As a senior ACV regular and defender of the ACV faith you seem
> to be showing your yellow streak by the lack of engagement with
> the AUK invaders. I thought you would have used your high
> intellect to flaw them with death defying logic and reasoned
> argument but alas maybe you are worried the K-Man team will
> scratch away your thin veneer of credibility for all to see.
>
> At least ACV regular Raid isn't worried about being exposed
> and he isn't a coward )


*HUGE SLURP*

....and, your bed-buddie dust**** _is_ a coward.



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>>> that will be reading these threads. Basically Hybris is/was a
>>> prototype worm spread from a developing world country where
>>> cyber-crime is a very very low priorty (hence the authors don't
>>> really give a flying **** about consequences for spreading malware).
>>> The Hybris worm is basically an *unstoppable* worm due to the nature
>>> of its update design.
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>> hybris used acv as it's update channel, it would upload it's modules
>> into the group for other instances to update themselves, and yes the
>> update mechanism was too tough to crack due to the packages being
>> digitally signed...
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> Yes
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>> hybris' effects here, though annoying, were filterable however... the
>> noise looked like noise so for those of us determined enough to tough
>> it out it wasn't that big a deal... if the noise had looked like
>> signal we'd have had much bigger problems...
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> I see Hybris as more proof of concept to test its ability to
> update itself rather than a deliberate nuisance for ACVers.
> It was easy to filter as noise but if Vecna would have added
> other features like an intelligent hip crime engine plugin
> then maybe it would server better as a fake signal generator.
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> 4Q

Damian