Wired: Cyber attacks traced to the U.S., Britain
The Bkis researchers found that every three minutes the infected computers randomly contacted one of eight servers to receive instructions. After gaining control of two of the botnet command and control servers, the researchers examined their logs and discovered that they were in turn contacting the master server in the UK, which was running a Microsoft Windows operating system.
So, are we supposed to re-ignite the War of 1812 over the U.K. vs. S. Korea? Or, more interestingly, are we meant to form a battle over Microsoft, sort of like the Allies beating back the Third Reich? (Godwin’s law!)
Assemble a force of OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Debian, Slackware, SuSE and Ubuntu machines to invade Redmond. We’ll keep Gentoo in reserve, as they’re busy on the /chan/s anyway.
