WWB 2.0RHEA HACK MISTAKEN FOR END OF UNIVERSE
Posted January 13, 2009
Much aTwitter about nothing
Fail and You Kids these days. Used to be, when you were mad at your parents or your professors, you’d write an email worm in Visual Basic and spread it around via Outlook clients.…
Hacks like that didn’t take a lot of talent, but they had some comic value. As a tech person, it’s entertaining to watch someone who’s not savvy work a machine that they think is “infected with a virus.” The more industrious evildoers wrote self-propagating worms that exploited vulnerabilities in common services, like the SQL Slammer worm that slowed internet traffic to a crawl on a Friday night when I was in college. Many of us nerds had to go outside and party instead of playing video games until 4AM. I know of several pregnancies that were a direct result of this vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server.
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