Kernel.org funny April fools joke

  • April 1, 2010

We have been monitoring kernel.org (and many other open source projects sites) with our web integrity monitoring solution and I was surprised to see a big change on their site today. It looked like some message in Russian was added and I even thought that they got hacked. That’s the alert I got:

from Sucuri NBIM
to me
date Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:23 AM
subject Sucuri nbim: www.kernel.org content modified

Modifications:
29c29
< The Linux Kernel Archives
—
> Normalize page
31,41c31,32
< Welcome to the Linux Kernel Archives. This is the primary site for the Linux kernel source,
< but it has much more than just Linux kernels.
< Frequently Asked Questions
—
> ǝɔıʇoᴎ ʃɐƃǝ⅂
> ˙spʃɐʌɹo⊥ snuı⅂ ɟo ʞɹɐɯǝpɐɹ⊥ pǝɹǝʇsıƃǝᴚ ɐ sı xnuı
43,44c34,36
..
—
> ˙sɹosuods ƃuıʍoʃʃoɟ ǝɥʇ ɯoɹɟ ʇɹoddns ɥʇıʍ ‘uoıʇɐɹodɹoɔ ʇıɟoɹduou Ɛ(ɔ)105 ɐ ‘˙ɔuI
> ‘uoıʇɐzıuɐƃɹO ʃǝuɹǝ⋊ xnuı⅂ ǝɥʇ ʎq pǝʇɐɹǝdo sı ǝʇıs sıɥ⊥

It actually took me a while to realize that today was April 1st. Nice try guys, nice try 🙂 Here is the screenshot if you missed it:Any other April 1st jokes today that I missed?

David is a Security Researcher at Sucuri. He spends most of his time dissecting vulnerabilities and security issues. You won't find him on Twitter because he is paranoid about privacy.

2 comments

  1. Wow, I'm actually glad someone like you is looking out for us *takes his hat off*.

    Sorry for the unintended e-mail, and you will likely get another tomorrow (sorry)

    Hopefully we brought at least a chuckle from the several hours of hand labor it took to do that up 😉

    – John 'Warthog9' Hawley

  2. Hours?! It probably took 10 mins! There are plenty of “Up-side-down text” services on the internet!

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