Impressed: it has been years since I've been hacked this well :(

David Bovill david at openpartnership.net
Thu Jun 14 18:54:31 EDT 2007


Hey - if your listening can you play some of that movie again ???

Or am I just being paranoid? Well to tell the truth this is extremely
annoying, and will cause me to be offline for a few days till I fix it. I
was hoping to get the code repository ready by the weekend, and now I don't
dare type in my passwords to get onto the site - hope this ghost is
relatively friendly. For those of you who don't have a clue what i am
talking about - let me amuse you with my predicament and perhaps solicit
some advice.

About an hour ago - while I was working at home, my Mac started to talk to
me - Matrix style. Well not exactly talk, but play movie clips, or at least
the sound of movie clips. A well judged selection of movies referring to
paranoia, security and well - computer viruses. Now I thought I knew a
little about this - but most definitely not. I am on OSX, with all the
latest security patches - no trace of Microsoft software and no temptation
to.. well to do stuff i shouldn't. A clean computer. behind a firewall,
built into a recent router - though I have no idea what sort of firewall....
and someone is playing me video files and quite possibly listening into
every word I type. Which means I can't do much at all - least of all
recharge my Skype account with my credit card to phone some friendly geeks
for help.

Be afraid... be very afraid!



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