Avast, ye scurvy corporate swabs!!
=v= Last Saturday, the SQLSlammer worm exploited the inevitable Microsoft security hole and disrupted (among other things) Bank of America's ATM network. While the bank's customers puzzle out the implications of their life savings being so comfortably close to port scans from the Internet, yours truly is getting busy and helping our heroic Office of Homeland Security with a lead on the perpetrator: I think it's Oliver Wendell Jones.
It was Jones, of course, who hacked into the stock exchange back in the early 1980s and broadcast the message, "Avast, ye scurvy dogs! Bank of America is about to go belly up!!" His current whereabouts are unknown, but there's a low-resolution photo available online (from the 1980s, when digital camera technology was in its infancy).
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