OT RE: [cobalt-users] Code Red variations

["Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > "Although the worm's effect is confined mainly to the
> >  United States so far, it could target computers in other
> >  parts of the world."
> >
> > Boggle.  I would never have thought it possible to condense
> > so much Cluelessness *and* US-centric parochialism into
> > so few words.
> >
> >
> > No offence meant to the many Clued-up US-based list members.
>
> <roar of hysterical laughter>
>
> "boggle"??? <more ROTFLMAO>
>
> Dom....ABSOLUTELY no offence taken. I too thought it was pathetic when I
> read it. Then again I think the media in almost every known form is
> pathetic.
>

Not to extend this way OT topic too much, but it's possible that the IP
blocks the worm targets are all in the US. e.g., if it only targets
198.*.*.* or some other ARIN/US based blocks. Which may be why the
whitehouse.gov site was the original target.

--
Dan Kriwitsky



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