Report: "SCO Hacked By Linux Backers" [LWN.net]

Report: "SCO Hacked By Linux Backers"

Posted Dec 11, 2003 1:58 UTC (Thu) by rjamestaylor (guest, #339)
Parent article: SCO press release on DDOS attack

Third of the Year: SCO Hacked By Linux Backers
>>> Charles Farrar
December 10, 2003
SALT LAKE CITY - The SCO Group has been tussling with Linux users in a legal battle and is paying a price of convenience, at least, for their trouble. SCO's Website has been reported hacked by Linux supporters for the third time this year, following earlier attacks in March and June.

This is getting ridiculous. There's no proof that there was a DDoS attack and it's already a "fact" that "Linux Backers" did it. (Perhaps the SysAdmin at SCO is a Linux Backer?). Besides, PJ and others (as reported at Groklaw) called SCO and were told there was no attack but that the website was down for maintenance. Then Stooge-well releases a stock-price-boosting claim that there __is__ and attack underway.

What crap.

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Report: "SCO Hacked By Linux Backers"

Posted Dec 11, 2003 5:10 UTC (Thu) by TimCunningham (guest, #10316) [Link]

Link is a 404 now, by the way.

Report: "SCO Hacked By Linux Backers"

Posted Dec 11, 2003 6:08 UTC (Thu) by rjamestaylor (guest, #339) [Link]

After I posted that article and link I wrote to the online-mag's Technical Editor the following:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031210163721614

Your story and its rather inflamatory headline has been picked up by Google News, which is how I found it.

I trust your organization is as concerned about the validity of its reports as it is of its integrity as a whole. Please correct the unwarranted assumptions in this article and its headline.

Sincerely,

Robert Taylor

I found out later that the site is a news place for the "adult entertainment industry" so maybe I was a bit presumptuous referring to integrity :). Anyway, I'd like to think I made a contribution in getting it removed/redacted/whatever.