Not well known, but after Hypercard was released for Macs, people made viruses for it. One such was "Wormcode", but no sample could be found. However, Wikipedia says: Originally posted to the usenet group comp.sys.mac.hypercard" in a stack called "Font Preview". And what do you know.

There are stories about a program - The Cookie Monster - at MIT/Brown in the 70's that would annoy users by asking for cookies all the time. Some have called it an urban legend. Not so much. The original CM was written in PL/1 for Multics and can be found here: www.multicians.org/pg/cookie.pl1

If you are a veteran of infosec/malware scene in the 70-90'ies you may receive a cold mail/message from me asking if you have historical material. Sorry about being such a pest. Just pipe to dev\null if not interested. There will be only one ping, hopefully it should be manageable.

In the 80-90'es Japan also struggled with DOS viruses - but with a twist. Their market was dominated by NEC PC-98 computers. They ran a DOS port on 8086 but BIOS was different, and disk IO was not via INT 13h but INT 1Bh. Thus Japanese boot viruses had to be custom made, like NEC/Hallow.

Almost every operating system has malware of some kind. Heard about MenuetOS? Small hobbyist OS project. Yet, there's at least two viruses for it (by the same person)

After prowling old USENET postings I found two more VM/CMS CHRISTMAS EXEC copycats. One minor variant of the original, and another called "ICM EXEC" from March '94. github.com/SnorreFagerl...

In 1987, a year before the Morris worm, the CHRISTMAS EXEC worm spread over email on EARN, BITNET and VNET. It's well documented. Did you know that several copycats followed on BITNET - at least 10 variants? Three of them - FACES, RAMA and ZT are uploaded to VHP. Below: RAMA aka Happy Ramadan.

I just received a fantastic donation of historical material for the Virus History Project. It will take some time to catalogue, but there's stuff in here that I have never seen - like three CHRISTMA EXEC-like worms for VM/CMS.

This is going to be unpopular, but I think it's the truth. Just poked around at one of the AI-music generation services. The kids are taking to this as fish to water, generating, sampling, remixing. The quality of much of this is *really high*, any genre. Not slop. These are the new playlists.

The DECNET Father Christmas worm of '88 hit (and notified its creator about) 35 out of >2500 NASA SPAN nodes. It's likely a coincidence, but one of them was OCEAN1 (node 6.58) - the box next to DIATOM (node 6.59) that was used as drop for the WANK worms the year after.

One WANK worm is likely lost, but I have to try: From the Dreyfus book: "Underground" ... but the Easynet version ... was ... distinct. It had a strange line of code in it, *a line missing from any other versions*....no circumstances was it to attack computers inside DEC's area 48. Anyone seen it?

I'm interested in getting in touch with anyone who was involved in the WANK/OILZ worm outbreak at NASA/CERN/DoE in 1989. I've talked to a few folks, but there are still blanks in this story - if you were part of that please ping me.

I hate the Word spell checker the most out of all modern application features. This condescending, unimaginative, language-averaging automat has caused more damage to writing than anything else up to the AI era.

@fuzzface.epsilon-ix.masto.host.ap.brid.gy btw: As I understand it you were integral in the WANK cleanup. Did you ever see the successor - OILZ?

@fuzzface.epsilon-ix.masto.host.ap.brid.gy I think this might be an old acquaintance of yours :) github.com/SnorreFagerl...

Thanks to the legend that is @vessonsecurity.bsky.social , the WANK DECNet worms that caused issues for NASA in 1989 have now been preserved for posterity. github.com/SnorreFagerl... See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WANK_(c...

@vessonsecurity.bsky.social Vess, have you seen copies of the WANK/OILZ worm that propagated on DECnet in 89?

@spaf.me Spaf, did you ever see copies of the WANK/OILZ worms on DECNET? I've been trying to get hold of them so that they are preserved for posterity, but no repos or publications seem to have them. (I run a GH repo to make sure such things don't vanish)

If Google's useless AI overview drives you nuts, add -AI to your search query.

Free advice, works for any political orientation: Folks that have BLAME as their main message are useless politicians. Ignore and move on.

Herreh, la oss slippe et nytt OL i Norge. I 2038 tror jeg dessuten vi har andre bekymringer.

AI slop is so common that it changes my own writing. I have always been influenced by the things I read, and could see echoes of that in my own hand. Now I feel the familiar AI lilt is creeping into me. We have trained the AI, now the AI is training us. "That is not only ironic. It's devastating".

So, apparently a person from my old school is mentioned in the Epstein files - Geir Ståle Frantzen; fmr Findus owner. That Findus brand was later sold to Lion Capital. Whose founder Lyndon Lea, oddly enough, is ALSO in the Epstein files.

Is there some law firm willing to pick up Jane Doe's case after her previous law firm was too chickenshit to stand by her? I obviously don't have the full background on the case, but what little I have seen has been heartbreaking, and the girl should have legal help.

Disse Epstein-møtene er jo, i tillegg til dodgy kontakt med en dømt forbryter, tvilsomme på flere måter. Det ser for meg ut som det svever mye eskortetjenester og liknende i dette bildet. Her er hvordan Epsteins egen stab omtalte møte med Jagland mfl i Paris i 2012.

LLM's are of varying quality, but the "AI overview" in Google is...bad. Really bad. It hallucinates a LOT.

I’m having a hard time thinking of an interview between two human beings I enjoyed more than tonight’s interview of the great Ian McKellen by the great Stephen Colbert. Every moment of it was a pleasure that I highly recommend… but then came the most REMARKABLE ending that you really HAVE to watch.

So I don't think everyone in Epstein's sphere is an abuser, though some clearly are. But what has become very visible is how desperate some people are to hang out with the rich and powerful, and how quickly they sell out any principles. That stuff is corrosive as hell.

If James Bond taught us anything it's beware folks who own their own island.

Improve a movie "with big naturals" Alien with big naturals

I've always had a good impression of Canadians. I'm sure they have the same issues as everybody else; nobody's perfect - but by and large they come across as peaceful, grounded, and fundamentally decent. Only been there once - Vancouver, wonderful city - but would happily go again.

Not something most people know, but major AI vendors are forced by EU regulations to tag content as AI-generated. This is already done by most major providers, even if the rules are not really kicking in before Aug 26.

Nå må folk roe seg ned littegranne. Photoshops har vi hatt i 30 år. Seksualisert og voldelig innhold også. Ungdommer vet hva fakes er. Det er oss gæmliser som får panikk. Det er problematiske sider ved AI, men dette her er en relativt liten sak.

Tuva Moflag for president.

I Trondheim heter ordføreren Ranum. Finansbyråden heter Reinskou. Mangler bare Tinnberg nå så er mysteriet komplett

not sure where I stand between Codex and Cursor. Codex is like "yeah, whatever man. Here's your fix" (same as the old fix). Cursor is like "oh NO!! I broke it! But now I see what was wrong and its deffo fixed now! Success!!" (fixed 1 thing, broke 3 things). Both are infuriating in different ways.

Innsatsleder Brian Skotnes: Politiet jobber på spreng. ...

I'm having interesting conversations with GPT5 :): ⚡️ So the real question isn’t “will LLMs fight for control of infospace?” They already are, indirectly. The sharper question is: 👉 When LLMs fight each other, will humans still be the audience, or just the terrain?

Vi legger fiberkabel til Jan Mayen? For 0 fastboende? Og forskerne som er der av og til kan ikke bruke starlink? Det er sikkert et rasjonale, men ikke lett å se det...

Don't wanna be an

I'm old enough to remember the Cult of the Dead Cow, and their backdoor trojan BackOrifice. It came with plugins known as "buttplugs". We're now vibeing plugins. I feel we've come full circle.

Fjottfeene i den russiske hackergruppa NoName057(16) driver med sine "angrep" (de forstyrrer websider via DDOS). Som avisene skriver har de angrepet Høyres sider, og masse annet også. Ringerike og Ullensaker kommuner. Ruter. Banenor. Stortingets mediaarkiv. 🙄 Di sku ha vorre åtsnakka.

En gang fantes det korrekturlesere i media, og en viss standard. Jeg vet jo at den tiden ikke kommer tilbake, men fader.

Heavy guitars can not go wrong youtu.be/SZE52BhtfUY?si=x…

Herreh, så lei jeg er av reality. Norges tøffeste, dummeste, sterkeste, beste hytte, og så bortetter ad nauseam. 🤮 Produsenter, KAN dere være så forbanna inderlig snille å lage noe som ikke er designet av regnskapsførere?

Første opplevelse på Parkenfestivalen var noe spesiell. Idet vi går inn, kommer meldinga om at hovedscenen er stengt pga "vær", og de fleste av kveldens headlinere er kansellert. Dette åpner flere timelange pauser i programmet der man skal stå i drivende regn og blomstre. Og været? Blikkstille. 🤷‍♂️

Norwegian PST points to pro Russian hackers for dam sabotage in April. reuters.com/technology/norwa… I have no idea where they got that idea from. #hacking #infrastructure #russia

Has someone researched an AI OS yet? By that I don't mean an operating system built for AI applications, but an operating system wholly governed by a binary code learning model.

Det kan ikke være en ulempe å ha en målvakt som Berger.

If you are risking a diplomatic incident trying to phish *some incredibly well known and connected persons*, you should probably send your best folks. Do not send your crappiest team SMH.