In what has turned into what resembles a high school drama, the author of a supposed OS X worm has had his blog hacked or has deliberately defaced it himself. I don’t even know what to make of the story anymore as it’s become completely bizarre.
In an e-mail message Infosecsellout said that the blog was written by a group of self-employed authors, but that appeared to contradict the blog’s January post claiming that the author was worried about his employer being approached.
When asked to explain the apparent contradiction, the blogger said, “Even the self employed have employers that are subject to crybabies.”
Huh. Crybabies. My thanks to anyone that can decode that response. Is he talking in the third person? And what is it about being a security researcher that makes them so anti-social and confrontational?
Anyway, as the story progresses, I’m beginning to doubt more and more that the described worm even exists.
I can't be much help in decoding the comments but can say that I'm rather under the impression that "security researcher" is just another name for "hacker" (damned if I'm doing that l33t speak stuff) in much the same way that all secretaries seem to have mysteriously turned into "personal assistants". Either way it's surely a profession that requires considerable time sat in front of a computer and not enough fresh air where the person develops the social skills of a gnat.
The statement sounds like a load of nonsense at the moment but I can understand that "self-employed have employers" statement if they were referring to their customer's as "employers". Probably just bad English rather than a contradiction, although this is just speculation on my part.
This story is just to weird for me to believe. It feels more like someone is trying to build the hype that was built for the Macbook wireless hack done way back when, that still I am not sure really works.
Believe when Apple patches for it I guess, or at least when someone with some credibility says its so.
I'm not sure you want to decode that response. :)