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>Padding it out with racist slurs told me all I needed to know about its creator. Clearly that is the intent. These companies have no shame. Remember Sony's re

• azinman2 5y ago
  I’m not seeing the connection between Sony and racial slurs. In fact, especially without knowing what racial slur this is, it tells me very little about the creators intent.
  • DangitBobby 5y ago
    They are saying the slurs could be intended to throw you off of the corporate scent and should be discarded as any evidence one way or the other who commissioned the creation.
    • tedunangst 5y ago
      It seems like most people are saying that all evidence found and all evidence not found should be interpreted to prove Sony or the MPAA or whoever is responsible. Evidence they didn't is fake and proof they did. Absence of evidence is proof of a coverup.
      • edgyquant 5y ago
        Sounds like your typical conspiracy theory.
      • squiggleblaz 5y ago
        That isn't the claim. The claim is the inclusion of a racial slur doesn't tell us anything. Instinctively, when I read it, I thought, "Oh, this is written by a independent vigilante, not by stakeholder". But other commenters are right. It is compatible with being written by an independent vigilante, and it is compatible with being written by or on behalf of stakeholders. I will withhold conclusion until further evidence is tendered.
  • rozab 5y ago
    The point is Sony continued to deny the existence of the rootkit for years, despite overwhelming evidence. If this malware was commissioned by the MPAA or something, I think they would have no issue with telling whatever morally dubious firm they hired to make it look like it came from stereotypical hacker types. They know that security blogs love to make conclusions on the origins of malware based on strings that could be trivially obscured.
• Nicksil 5y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
• chucka9 5y ago
  > These companies have no shame. Do you think this was backed by companies? It seems reasonable to suspect it, but it’s a issue radioactive now so won’t be easy to find out.
  • bitwize 5y ago
    I think it was commissioned by a company and written by a teen or twentysomething jerk. Raising hackles by throwing N-words around is a favorite pastime of young assholes. Don't think that because 4chan cracked down on that sort of thing that it doesn't still go on in certain communities.
    • devenblake 5y ago
      4chan might've cracked down on the racism, like, a decade ago, in the moot era. Have you been there lately? /pol/ took over and basically homogenized every board.
      • edgyquant 5y ago
        If 4chan cracked down on racism they did the worst job I could possibly imagine. You can’t even go to the fit or tv boards without running into literal, unapologetic, white supremacist views.
        • devenblake 5y ago
          8chan if I recall formed because 4chan did away with /pol/ way way back for being too toxic to the rest of the site (it's meant to contain the scum, not breed it). 4chan eventually re-added /pol/, and 8chan, well, you know the rest there.
  • cortesoft 5y ago
    If it was backed by companies, it would probably be funded by a 'trade group' funded by the companies, to have three layers of indirection to protect themselves.
• xupybd 5y ago
  Perhaps an attempt at connecting anti piracy with racism? It seems very strange.
  • squiggleblaz 5y ago
    Isn't that reaching for four dimensional chess? Does anyone actually play four dimensional chess?
• prvc 5y ago
  >told me all I needed to know about its creator On the contrary, it makes one curious. Is it an attempt to ensnare the victim into heightened surveillance and suspicion (and hence higher likelihood of coming to harm) from governments, based on the assumption that their own malware uses these keywords to scan for targets? Or perhaps it creates some other kind of liability for the victim.