"Symantec tried to bribe hackers not to release their source code" - Anonymous hacker team

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Lame imho from Anonymous

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I doubt that was Anonymous.

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Symantec was taking to long to pay the hackers for them not to release the souce code of PCanywhere thing on Norton or soemthing, the source code(1.26GB compressed) has been downloaded now for a total ammount of 16 TB

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not really a bribe. they were attempting to protect their property. would you say that you are bribing terrorists for a hostage? no, they asked for money

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From the exchange it feels more like "hackers tried to get Symantec to pay them money, but got tired of waiting".

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yes

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Wow that was obnoxious to read. Interesting though, I guess

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lol, how pathetic.

symantec actually wanted to have the hackers publicly state that they lied about ever doing it.

They would have been lucky enough to get their code back in the first place.

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Anything happen as a result? Symantec get fucked? Cause my school uses it Norton Antivirus lol.

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yeah, they leaked the source code

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They leaked the code to PCAnywhere, which is totally useless.

The Norton code leak is also useless since the current versions of the AV product don't use that as it's base.

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So the "Norton Corporation" got hacked by Mexican script kiddies? Oh wow.

Their service was horrible, no wonder they got fucked like this. It's probably just Karma fighting back.

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tbh, symantec and norton are pretty terrible.

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They are pretty great actually. I mean if your looking for a piece of software that doesn't do what its made to do, slows down your system, and arbitrarily deletes files then its wonderful!

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The new editions 2010 onwards are pretty good compared to other top notch AV like BitDef and KAspersky

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I stick to avast, and nothing has happened to my systems yet. I've visited the shady internet more than a few times, too.

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The CORPORATE version of Norton AV is amazing. Absolutely zero impact on the system. The Conumer grade one is total shite though.

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"we assure you we are man of honor we keep our promise."

My god that make me lol

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Too much text, needs editing xD

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It's pretty common for security teams to pay people who find flaws in their software, on the basis that in exchange for the money, the hackers don't release any of it publicly. Google and Mozilla both have pages on their website offering huge amounts of money to anyone reporting major security flaws in their products.

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The source code was only for pcAnywhere. Symantec will buy another IP and turn it into garbage like they've done to everything else. Poor PGP.

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thast why i dont have antivirus =P

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Norton is horribad. Just use MSE.

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+1

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Norton sucks harder than an entire production run of Dysons.

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Symantec tried to bribe them? From that it sounded more like the hackers were the ones wanting the money. Why else would they have talked to Symantec rep at all.

Kidnapper: "Parents tried to bribe us not to kill their child!"

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They said they were going to auction it off, that ppl wanted to buy it. And then they just released it for free? So they got no money in the end ?

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Closed 13 years ago by NotableSilva.