Re: symbiot security - april fool's prank ?

[Mark <securitylists () uniontown com>]

Chris Caydes wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I have just come across the website and last week's
> press release of a company named Symbiot Security.
> The idea of this "company" is to strike back against
> network-based attackers.
>
> I've seen the information relayed on several technews
> websites, and a (rather funny) discussion on /. about
> it. One suggested on /. that version 2 of the solution
> would "preemptively attack any remote hosts that could
> conceivably pose a threat".
>
> I've seen the similar concept of e-retaliation last
> year, on April 1st, 2003, but it was, of course, an
> april fool's joke.
>
> This looks pretty much like a prank too... Their
> website is at symbiot.com, and contains nothing more
> than 3 PDF files. Is anyone aware of what this really
> is ?
>
> Regards
> Chris
>  
One of these seems to pop up every few years or so.  Last one I can 
actually recall was called Blitzkreig server?

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/168

"The Blitzkrieg server, according to the trade magazine that originally 
hyped it, was "a new virus that automatically launches a lethal counter 
offensive against hackers... the digital equivalent of Star Wars 
technology" capable of knocking out the computer on the other end of the 
line by destroying its hardware /and/ software. "

Of course we all know the stupidity in counterstrikes and retaliation 
with detected attacks, right?  Let's see, I will spoof whitehouse.gov 
and launch a scan....

:-)

-Mark C




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