Famous at last, though not in the best way

Mike Kerner MikeKerner at roadrunner.com
Tue Mar 18 12:48:48 EDT 2014


CSO article:
http://www.csoonline.com/article/749849/bitcoin-stealing-malware-hidden-in-mt.-gox-data-dump-researcher-says?source=CSONLE_nlt_salted_hash_2014-03-18


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com
> wrote:

> Mike Kerner wrote:
>
>  By the way, it appears the hackers were trying to uncover fraud at Mt.
>> Gox,
>> so they're actually being considered heroes, which is a little weird...
>>
>
> Weird or not, nice to see LC in the role of hero code.
>
>
>
>  And by the way, this is EXACTLY why when I download some random stack that
>> someone here has thrown in that allegedly does something very cool, I only
>> open it in an isolated VM until I can have a better look at it, first.
>>
>
> Hard to beat a full VM for containment, but for those of you who may need
> to run stacks from unknown sources within your main system I wrote a simple
> tool to help with that.
>
> 4W Secure Runner provides checkboxes for all the categories in the new
> securityPermissions property added in v6.1.3, so you can conveniently turn
> on the permissions you want to allow and then select a stack to open:
> <http://www.fourthworld.com/rev/channel/4wSecureRunner.livecode.gz>
>
> As with the older secureMode property (which is still supported, though
> more strictly than in older versions), once the security permissions are
> set they can only be made more restrictive during the current session, but
> cannot be lifted.  So if you run this tool, be sure you've saved any work
> you need first, since turning off the "disk" option will prevent any reads
> or writes to disk.
>
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World
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