The Colbert Report: Japanese Hackers Are Out to Get Us

Posted on August 25, 2010 by John

The other night, Stephen Colbert reported that a Japanese hacker by the name of Masato Nakatsuji had been arrested for writing a computer virus that replaced all the files on a person’s computer with images of squid – infecting an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 computers. Now I can understand why a hacker would want to write a virus or worm to steal passwords or someone’s files, but WTF – replace files with images of squid? Talk about a total waste of time and effort.

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I'm a Taiwanese-American and was born & raised in Western Massachusetts, went to college in upstate New York, worked in Connecticut, went to grad school in North Carolina and then moved out to the Bay Area in 1999 and have been living here ever since - love the weather and almost everything about the area (except the high cost of housing...)
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