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Article #120Re: Cuervo, I disagree: ShareSniffer Released
From: Kenn Barry
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 03:55
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 03:55
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In article <QDkm6.27763$5M5.1725199@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com>, Paul Newhouse <rockhead.com@bigbox.wan.vpn> wrote: >In article <dvjj9t8d7j5ji4p021fsh4qphrsnrm8hvq@4ax.com>, > rtoledo@gte.net writes: >> this reminds me of a once popular service bought out by Lycos and now >> very crappy service called FTPsearch guess how it finds files in >> thousands of FTP servers, it scans all these servers and even scans >> hidden folders that a regular user would not usually find unless they >> know how to use unix systems > >Hidden "folders" on unix!? Really! Do you mean unix or some application >that runs on unix, like Samba? I think he means unix. I can't remember details, but I do recall that hackers at least used to sometimes "borrow" disk space on machines they didn't own, and hide files they wanted to trade with their friends there. The directory name that sticks in my mind is "...". I don't recall the details, just that you normally wouldn't see this directory with an ftp 'dir' command. UNIX also has what it labels "hidden" files and directories. These are file and directory names that begin with the '.' character. They don't show on a vanilla 'ls' listing. I believe they do show up in an ftp 'dir', though, so I don't think this is what the poster was referring to. Kayembee
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f922c,b3c453f70036b961 X-Google-Attributes: gidf922c,public X-Google-Thread: f5dc1,b3c453f70036b961 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5dc1,public X-Google-Thread: 10090f,b3c453f70036b961 X-Google-Attributes: gid10090f,public X-Google-Thread: 113850,b3c453f70036b961 X-Google-Attributes: gid113850,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-26 20:00:16 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!enews.sgi.com!nntp.wetware.com!news.wetware.com!not-for-mail From: barry@necro.pacbell.net (Kenn Barry) Newsgroups: comp.security.firewalls,bellsouth.net.security,comp.dcom.xdsl,comp.dcom.modems.cable Subject: Re: Cuervo, I disagree: ShareSniffer Released Date: 27 Feb 2001 03:55:20 GMT Organization: QQQCLC Lines: 27 Message-ID: <97f8f8$gh5$1@numbers.wetware.com> References: <3A966412.9336DCD8@mynetwatchman.com> <YSXl6.1657$Tj1.1236856@nntp1.onemain.com> <dvjj9t8d7j5ji4p021fsh4qphrsnrm8hvq@4ax.com> <QDkm6.27763$5M5.1725199@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com> Reply-To: barry@wetware.com NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-63-194-209-198.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test74 (May 26, 2000) Originator: barry@necro.pacbell.net (Kenn Barry)