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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
Interesting interview with a former adware blackhat.
http://philosecurity.org/2009/01/12/interview-with-an-adware-author
Quote describing adware wars between competitors:
M: [...] I used tinyScheme, which is a BSD licensed, very small, very fast implementation of Scheme that can be compiled down into about a 20K executable if you know what you're doing. Eventually, instead of writing individual executables every time a worm came out, I would just write some Scheme code, put that up on the server, and then immediately all sorts of things would go dark. It amounted to a distributed code war on a 4-10 million-node network. S: In your professional opinion, how can people avoid adware? M: Um, run UNIX.
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Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]
2009/1/14 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:
> Interesting interview with a former adware blackhat. >
Heh. I wonder how I missed that, when you sent it (I found it via the
wine list, where it has lead to a discussion about adware support
under wine 
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:47:07PM +0000, Jimmy O'Regan wrote:
> 2009/1/14 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>: > > Interesting interview with a former adware blackhat.
Oh, so it did make it through. I guess I just auto-deleted it when I saw it and forgot about it.
> Heh. I wonder how I missed that, when you sent it (I found it via the > wine list, where it has lead to a discussion about adware support > under wine
That's where I got it, too; that's where I'd been beating on my current problem before posting it to TAG.
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