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Killing people with C - sourcecode???

I'm a serial killer and unlike other killers I don't kill
people with guns, knives or chainsaws.

I kill people with software. By reading the sourcecode
of one of my programs, the victim's brain will overload
and shut down. The cops and CSI teams don't have
a clue.

But now I'm running out of deadly sourcecodes.

Can you help me to kill a few more people by giving
me some advice??? I need some extremly deadly
C programs. Some routines that could instantly
kill people. Please help!!!

Jul 11 '07 #1
16 1669
On Jul 11, 5:22 pm, "Lucas J. Riesau" <ion_sph...@yahoo.comwrote:
I'm a serial killer and unlike other killers I don't kill
people with guns, knives or chainsaws.

I kill people with software. By reading the sourcecode
of one of my programs, the victim's brain will overload
and shut down. The cops and CSI teams don't have
a clue.

But now I'm running out of deadly sourcecodes.

Can you help me to kill a few more people by giving
me some advice??? I need some extremly deadly
C programs. Some routines that could instantly
kill people. Please help!!!
But, if we give it to you, you shall immediatelly die, like your
victims. Are you sure?

Jul 11 '07 #2
Darko wrote:
On Jul 11, 5:22 pm, "Lucas J. Riesau" <ion_sph...@yahoo.comwrote:
<snip spam>
But, if we give it to you, you shall immediatelly die, like your
victims. Are you sure?
This exact same message was posted to this group some months back,
presumably by the same poster. That time he got the response he
wanted. This time, hopefully, this obvious troll will be ignored.

Jul 11 '07 #3

"Lucas J. Riesau" <io********@yahoo.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@57g2000hsv.googlegro ups.com...
I'm a serial killer and unlike other killers I don't kill
people with guns, knives or chainsaws.

I kill people with software. By reading the sourcecode
of one of my programs, the victim's brain will overload
and shut down. The cops and CSI teams don't have
a clue.

But now I'm running out of deadly sourcecodes.

Can you help me to kill a few more people by giving
me some advice??? I need some extremly deadly
C programs. Some routines that could instantly
kill people. Please help!!!
A method for factoring large prime numbers. This would compromise national
security because anyone could break the RSA cryptosystem. Anyone in
possession of the secret would be hunted down by the CIA and killed.
Obviously they would make it look like someone else had done it.
--
Free games and programming goodies.
http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~bgy1mm
Jul 11 '07 #4
[crossposts trimmed]

Malcolm McLean said:
>
"Lucas J. Riesau" <io********@yahoo.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@57g2000hsv.googlegro ups.com...
>>
Can you help me to kill a few more people by giving
me some advice??? I need some extremly deadly
C programs. Some routines that could instantly
kill people. Please help!!!
A method for factoring large prime numbers.
Too late. Bill Gates is already working on that, and he can throw a lot
more resource at the problem than you can.

--
Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk>
Email: -www. +rjh@
Google users: <http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/writings/googly.php>
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
Jul 11 '07 #5
In article <ha******************************@bt.com>,
Malcolm McLean <re*******@btinternet.comwrote:
>
"Lucas J. Riesau" <io********@yahoo.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@57g2000hsv.googlegr oups.com...
>Can you help me to kill a few more people by giving
me some advice??? I need some extremly deadly
C programs.
>A method for factoring large prime numbers. This would compromise national
security because anyone could break the RSA cryptosystem. Anyone in
possession of the secret would be hunted down by the CIA and killed.
Obviously they would make it look like someone else had done it.
So *that's* what happened! I knew Bill wouldn't retire without good
reason! Jason Foxtrot must have been getting too close to the secret,
so they must have forced Bill to lie low!
--
"law -- it's a commodity"
-- Andrew Ryan (The Globe and Mail, 2005/11/26)
Jul 11 '07 #6
On 11 Jul, 19:58, "Malcolm McLean" <regniz...@btinternet.comwrote:
"Lucas J. Riesau" <ion_sph...@yahoo.comwrote in messagenews:11**********************@57g2000hsv.go oglegroups.com...
I'm a serial killer and unlike other killers I don't kill
people with guns, knives or chainsaws.
I kill people with software. By reading the sourcecode
of one of my programs, the victim's brain will overload
and shut down. The cops and CSI teams don't have
a clue.
But now I'm running out of deadly sourcecodes.
Can you help me to kill a few more people by giving
me some advice??? I need some extremly deadly
C programs. Some routines that could instantly
kill people. Please help!!!

A method for factoring large prime numbers. This would compromise national
security because anyone could break the RSA cryptosystem. Anyone in
possession of the secret would be hunted down by the CIA and killed.
Obviously they would make it look like someone else had done it.
--
The "method for factoring large prime numbers" is simple
and well known. It is to write down the number that you
started with. I think that you meant something else, but
you should have said so.
--

Jul 11 '07 #7
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:58:24 +0100, "Malcolm McLean"
<re*******@btinternet.comwrote:
>
"Lucas J. Riesau" <io********@yahoo.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@57g2000hsv.googlegr oups.com...
>I'm a serial killer and unlike other killers I don't kill
people with guns, knives or chainsaws.

I kill people with software. By reading the sourcecode
of one of my programs, the victim's brain will overload
and shut down. The cops and CSI teams don't have
a clue.

But now I'm running out of deadly sourcecodes.

Can you help me to kill a few more people by giving
me some advice??? I need some extremly deadly
C programs. Some routines that could instantly
kill people. Please help!!!
A method for factoring large prime numbers. This would compromise national
security because anyone could break the RSA cryptosystem. Anyone in
possession of the secret would be hunted down by the CIA and killed.
Obviously they would make it look like someone else had done it.
A bit too easy. Consider the number of factors for a prime number.

--
Al Balmer
Sun City, AZ
Jul 11 '07 #8
Lucas J. Riesau wrote:
I need some extremly deadly
C programs. Some routines that could instantly
kill people. Please help!!!
Every once in a while on this newsgroup
somebody posts code that looks like this:

#define P printf
#define R return
#define W while
#define F for

If you google in this newsgroup
on the phrase "thousand tears"
or the phrase "Joona gets upset"
you can probably see an entire one of those programs.
Be careful if you decide to try to look at whole one.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....usand+tears%22
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....7b8c4e5?hl=en&

--
pete
Jul 11 '07 #9
On Jul 12, 1:22 am, "Lucas J. Riesau" <ion_sph...@yahoo.comwrote:
I'm a serial killer and unlike other killers I don't kill
people with guns, knives or chainsaws.

I kill people with software. By reading the sourcecode
of one of my programs, the victim's brain will overload
and shut down. The cops and CSI teams don't have
a clue.

But now I'm running out of deadly sourcecodes.

Can you help me to kill a few more people by giving
me some advice??? I need some extremly deadly
C programs. Some routines that could instantly
kill people. Please help!!!
Study the holocaust pal

Dr Shaft

Jul 12 '07 #10
"Lucas J. Riesau" <io********@yahoo.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@57g2000hsv.googlegro ups.com...
I'm a serial killer and unlike other killers I don't kill
people with guns, knives or chainsaws.

I kill people with software. By reading the sourcecode
of one of my programs, the victim's brain will overload
and shut down. The cops and CSI teams don't have
a clue.

But now I'm running out of deadly sourcecodes.

Can you help me to kill a few more people by giving
me some advice??? I need some extremly deadly
C programs. Some routines that could instantly
kill people. Please help!!!
Why are you going out of your way to kill people? Doesn't it just happen
naturally?

Examples:

a)The Therac-25 disaster.

b)Drive-by-wire and fly-by-wire are now established technologies. Sooner or
later there will be a software bug. (And let's not mention traffic lights,
air-traffic control systems, and GPS-ILS systems, which all have a heavy
software component.)

When software (which can't be engineered to 100% reliability) is mixed with
important systems, don't the disasters flow naturally?

Why do you have to try?
--
David T. Ashley (dt*@e3ft.com)
http://www.e3ft.com (Consulting Home Page)
http://www.dtashley.com (Personal Home Page)
http://gpl.e3ft.com (GPL Publications and Projects)
Jul 12 '07 #11
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:22:43 -0700, Lucas J. Riesau wrote:
I'm a serial killer and unlike other killers I don't kill
people with guns, knives or chainsaws.

I kill people with software. By reading the sourcecode
of one of my programs, the victim's brain will overload
and shut down. The cops and CSI teams don't have
a clue.

But now I'm running out of deadly sourcecodes.

Can you help me to kill a few more people by giving
me some advice??? I need some extremly deadly
C programs. Some routines that could instantly
kill people. Please help!!!
On the DS9K, you have several ways to do that, but they are not
portable. On PCs they would probably just segfault.

--
Army1987 (Replace "NOSPAM" with "email")
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained
by stupidity." -- R. J. Hanlon (?)

Jul 12 '07 #12
On Jul 12, 10:29 am, Army1987 <army1...@NOSPAM.itwrote:
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:22:43 -0700, Lucas J. Riesau wrote:
I'm a serial killer and unlike other killers I don't kill
people with guns, knives or chainsaws.
I kill people with software. By reading the sourcecode
of one of my programs, the victim's brain will overload
and shut down. The cops and CSI teams don't have
a clue.
But now I'm running out of deadly sourcecodes.
Can you help me to kill a few more people by giving
me some advice??? I need some extremly deadly
C programs. Some routines that could instantly
kill people. Please help!!!

On the DS9K, you have several ways to do that, but they are not
portable. On PCs they would probably just segfault.
Clearly, another important application of fatality via the C language
is to killfile through the use of C.
If a C program can be so constructed to detect the combination of
"whinging" and "twit" simultaneously then we set the first indicator.
Then, if we see a powerful indication of "refusal to learn at any
cost" we set the second and final indicator.
These two indicators put into motion a "symbolic poleaxing" of the
culprit, as they fall to the bottom of the killfile.
The last operation of the C program is to puts() the string "*plonk*"
and then exit with EXIT_SUCCESS and we have a real triumph of
engineering.

Jul 12 '07 #13
On Jul 11, 1:19 pm, Al Balmer <albal...@att.netwrote:
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:58:24 +0100, "Malcolm McLean"

<regniz...@btinternet.comwrote:
"Lucas J. Riesau" <ion_sph...@yahoo.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@57g2000hsv.googlegro ups.com...
I'm a serial killer and unlike other killers I don't kill
people with guns, knives or chainsaws.
I kill people with software. By reading the sourcecode
of one of my programs, the victim's brain will overload
and shut down. The cops and CSI teams don't have
a clue.
But now I'm running out of deadly sourcecodes.
Can you help me to kill a few more people by giving
me some advice??? I need some extremly deadly
C programs. Some routines that could instantly
kill people. Please help!!!
A method for factoring large prime numbers. This would compromise national
security because anyone could break the RSA cryptosystem. Anyone in
possession of the secret would be hunted down by the CIA and killed.
Obviously they would make it look like someone else had done it.

A bit too easy. Consider the number of factors for a prime number.
Right. I can factor a prime number in a heartbeat. It's the ones
composed of two very large factors that give me cross-eyed hissy fits.

For instance, given:
46087889153412422879505266548670603170363510217580 48556373081203138191824691373110998562406281158378 25286498493561436529

It takes a while to come up with:
67888061655502009832536252290167830399869662618795 3295533977^2

Jul 12 '07 #14
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:17:38 -0700, user923005 wrote:
Right. I can factor a prime number in a heartbeat. It's the ones
composed of two very large factors that give me cross-eyed hissy fits.

For instance, given:
46087889153412422879505266548670603170363510217580 48556373081203138191824691373110998562406281158378 25286498493561436529

It takes a while to come up with:
67888061655502009832536252290167830399869662618795 3295533977^2
I'd bet you did the other way round, didn't you? :-)
--
Army1987 (Replace "NOSPAM" with "email")
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained
by stupidity." -- R. J. Hanlon (?)

Jul 14 '07 #15
On Jul 14, 2:25 am, Army1987 <army1...@NOSPAM.itwrote:
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:17:38 -0700, user923005 wrote:
Right. I can factor a prime number in a heartbeat. It's the ones
composed of two very large factors that give me cross-eyed hissy fits.
For instance, given:
46087889153412422879505266548670603170363510217580 4855637308120313819182469*137311099856240628115837 825286498493561436529
It takes a while to come up with:
67888061655502009832536252290167830399869662618795 3295533977^2

I'd bet you did the other way round, didn't you? :-)
Naturally. But my factoring software could solve it in a couple of
weeks, according to my estimate.

Jul 16 '07 #16
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:34:42 -0700, user923005 wrote:
On Jul 14, 2:25 am, Army1987 <army1...@NOSPAM.itwrote:
>On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:17:38 -0700, user923005 wrote:
Right. I can factor a prime number in a heartbeat. It's the ones
composed of two very large factors that give me cross-eyed hissy fits.
For instance, given:
46087889153412422879505266548670603170363510217580 48556373081203138191824691373110998562406281158378 25286498493561436529
It takes a while to come up with:
67888061655502009832536252290167830399869662618795 3295533977^2

I'd bet you did the other way round, didn't you? :-)

Naturally. But my factoring software could solve it in a couple of
weeks, according to my estimate.
One might argue that if that is the case, your factoring software is
somewhat poorly designed.

Consider: there is no point examining any potential factor larger than the
square root of the number being factored. Since one presumably has to
calculate this anyways (to set the boundary), then either an integral
result or a quick multiplication will tell you, almost instantly, that the
number has the factor noted above; this should not take anywhere near even
a second, never mind a couple of weeks.

Or did I miss something?
Jul 19 '07 #17

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