Ikatako Virus Replaces Victims' Files With Pictures of Squid

An anonymous reader writes "Ikatako is a virus that spreads through Japanese P2P network Winny, aided by the pirates' lack of wit. Once downloaded and run, the virus sends their data to a central server and replaces it with cephalopod and cnidarian imagery. Japanese hacker (and virus creator) Masato Nakatsuji thought he wouldn't be arrested this time. However, Japanese police considered the files in Japanese pirates' hard drives to be more important than his manga depictions of octopods and other tentacled fauna."

cephalopods are no crime

[Trepidity]

Screw Japan, free cephalopods!

squid pro quo

[maweki]

squid pro quo

No pics?

[ChrisK87]

The quality of this alleged cephalopod manga is clearly relevant to how serious a crime this is. We need to see these pictures before we can make a judgment.

Tentacle P...ictures?

[tnok85]

Can you imagine the shock when you open your porn folder to find it's all tentacles... err, I mean, can you imagine the shock when somebody who doesn't post on /. opens their porn folder to find it's all tentacles?

Re:squid pro quo

[Anonymous Coward]

he programmed in octal

It was probably a paid hit

[BlindRobin]

I suspect that P.Z. Myers hired him or one of his minions of the Pharyngula hoard

Re:squid pro quo

[Anonymous Coward]

Since squid have 10 arms, wouldn't that be decimal?

worthless without pics

[roman_mir]

insane, they TALK about an image in this so called story instead of displaying it!

Ok, here [fixie-king.dk] are some [gstatic.com] pictures [michaelstarrart.com] to make [coolest-gadgets.com] the story [gstatic.com] worth [wordpress.com] the 5 minutes [ua.adme.ru] /. is going [armsport.am] to waste [svezhak.org.ua] on it.

But echinoderms are(was: cephalopods are no crime)

[ralfmuschall]

True, but he also installed also pics of sea urchins, who are the enemy in the Great Invertebrate War.

Cephalapod fetish hacker scooped in police dragnet

[qwerty8ytrewq]

Everything was going swimmingly until he got hooked, line and sinker by the police who smelt something fishy. I wonder if he was acting on behalf of Sid The Squid [independent.co.uk]a thieving octopus who was released early last year from NZ.

Re:cephalopods are no crime

[Anonymous Coward]

But they're so creepy. They're creepy and even T-rex is afraid of them. [qwantz.com]

Re:A "hardened" computer hacker?

[flyneye]

If only we could send black hats, virus writers and script kiddies everywhere to Japan for proper sorting and disposal.

           

Re:cephalopod hentai?

[Anonymous Coward]

I had no idea tentacle porn was so old.

We are doomed.

You backwards Western barbarian, while your ancestors were still painting themselves blue and living in caves, sexual perversion was already running rampant in Asian societies .

Re:squid pro quo

[JustOK]

Yah! Toronto is a province. The capital of Canada is C.

Re:This is the Japanese police's fault

[Anonymous Coward]

The first time I encountered this strange behavior, it was with a Japanese girlfriend. If I asked her to do something and she didn't want to, she would offer a reason why not. And after addressing the concern, she would come up with another reason why not. Eventually, I would get to the core reason(s) why not, but only after persistently digging into the issue.

What place of earth do you live on where women do tell you immediately the core reason behind whatever they refuse to do? Seriously.