Oh, such sweet, blissful irony.

Why is windows 7 not affected?

@Sander

I hope you are being sarcastic

Sander your glad you use a mac because?
Bloddy Macfag’s, they cant even count.

I’ve give similar apps a test. This one seems one of the best coded. Doesn’t crash when the ip can’t be found for example. Nice find.

lets see an iphone do that!

Anyone know of a linux (not android-specific) version of this? I have a few windows machines at home that I would like to “test”.

Lame, this app is a rip off of the one posted in the comments of the SMB news last week:
http://hackaday.com/2009/09/09/windows-7-and-vista-crash-via-smb-exploit/#comment-93162

Why would you take a free app and make your own priced version and an ad-supported version to try and profit from?

The flaw was not found by me, and even if it had been, why should I try to make money off it? It’s a testing tool for easy testing on your own home/office/clients networks.

Not cool, Tom.

@m0zzie

you seem to not know the definition of the word ‘profit’

why would anyone do anything for profit?

you’re answering your own question

@m0zzie

You’ve already contacted me on twitter to tell me off you don’t need to do it here too. I didn’t rip off your app yours wasn’t aware of your app when I started mine. I was also inspired by Laurent Gaffié’s post. I’m not profiting at all; the couple of cents, and that really is all, thats come of the advertising doesn’t nearly cover the $25 I paid to become a developer to publish it. You have a donate button on your site, I see the paid app as more or less the same thing. People are free to use whichever version they want thats one of the great things about the +10000 app market we have. I’m not interested in getting in a flame war.

Man, that’s scary. I think my pc’s safe though.

My roommate hates you for posting this :P

any app that does this “for testing purposes” should only allow private network addresses (e.g. 192.168.x.x, 172.x.x.x, 10.x.x.x, and 127.0.0.1 (mwahaha))

I thought the same.

anyway, I do feel kinda stupid right now, I guess I didn’t completely understand the article, and everything being in Englush doesn’t help alot. the fact that I said that I’m glad at using a mac is because I thought this only occurs at windows.

ugh.

@Sander

The reason you were being mocked is that the 192.168.x.x is a class C IP address that is only used for internal networks. My ip starts with 192.168. as well, and so do a lot of other networks’ IP ranges.

Similarly, the 127.0.0.1 address is the address that always points to your own computer – it is basically a virtual(e.g. not a physical one) that is used to connect to your own computer, for IPC stuff and some much more complicated stuff. So when someone says their IP is 127.0.0.1, they’re right, but so is yours, etc, to simplify.

tested on iphone python
My windows 7 rc box goes down but vista home 32 doesn’t.

App’s done! Submitting to cydia (big boss repo). Tested, works, and has fun flashy colors! Will post link to pic of it after I get off work!

@tom101

Needs approval still. I thought jailbreaking the iphone bypassed the approval process. Bullshit!
OH HOLY BALLS WE HAVE CAPS!!!

@The_Evil_Machinist
That is odd, suppose it’s to stop bricking apps and the like though. Caps…didn’t even notice until you pointed it out, how long have we had this? It wasn’t here the other week on the apple fake math post. It’ll be gone soon as someone comes along and shouts “F1R5T P0S7!!1!!ONE!!!”.

@nick
Why do you have to crash the every computer on the network? Why can’t you just tell the admins that the machines need to be patched?

Ok sad news for iPhone owners… Big Boss has rejected this app because of malicious content. (“_”) I’m crying inside. Well Time to set up my own repository!

The Jailbreak team is trying to prove that there is nothing wrong with what there doing. So they were trying to protect themselves and the jailbreak. There are unofficial ways of getting software onto cydia but setting up a cydia repository is quite hard (well for me). It all comes down to Apple vs Linux. If anyone is running os 2.whatever on there iphone or ipod touch, I can set up a download link to a xcode project file so you can just transfer it to the device for “debugging”. Apple got rid of that feature in os 3.0 because of shitheads like us!!