On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 20:54:37 +0300, analyzerx said: > you must be retarted right? Actually, his question *is* legitimate. I'm sure that at least a few script kiddies will take advantage of "Mark of the Devil Day" to cause mischief. There were similar concerns about hackers doing stuff in conjunction with the Y2K rollover (when they could fly under the wire). Of course, as a co-worker and I pointed out to many people back then, launching a hack attack when the target is probably in an 'all-hands' alert mode *watching* for the slightest twitchiness in the system was a bad idea. The time to do it was on Jan 3, about 6PM local time at the target - at which point the entire IT staff was probably saying "F**k this, even if it's Monday, we're going out and getting falling-down, shit-faced, blowing-chunks(*) drunk. We didn't have a Y2K disaster." Interestingly enough, the SANS DShield project had a interesting post regarding "non-standard incident prediction" just the other day, which overlaps the 6/6/06 issue: http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1379 That sort of 'Level 8' thinking *should* be at least thought about as part of a reasonable organizational security stance. And at least *some* people think something interesting is going to happen Tuesday: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/03/hell.party.ap/index.html "According to the town's semi-official web site..." Hmm. Now combine that with the SANS article's comment about fake websites targeting World Cup fans, and add a dash of paranoia.... ;) (*) That's *really* drunk: http://www.eforu.com/jokes/bartender/23.html
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