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Article #73Re: [8lgm]-Advisory-13.UNIX.SCO-login.15-Apr-1994
From: Paul Walmsley
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 1994 05:14
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 1994 05:14
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Gary L. Burnore (gburnore@netcom.com) wrote:
: Paul 'Shag' Walmsley (ccshag@sgi2.phlab.missouri.edu) wrote:
: : I don't think that it is unusual for the "weenies" to be cracking your
: : system for quite some time before the 8lgm advisory came out. Simply
: : because system administrators hear about a hole for the first time
: : through 8lgm doesn't mean that others didn't hear about it earlier.
: Naah Naah Na Naah Naah,
: I know a secret,
: I'm not going to tell you.
: But you'd better worry.
: Naah Naah Na Naah Naah!
: This is indeed a crock. Tell us what to look for or don't say anything!
: Those who crack have the time to figure out what your secret is. Those
: who admin don't.
What 'secrets' are you talking about? I'm merely making a statement of
fact (that should be obvious to anyone who has had a Unix system up on the
'Net for any extended period of time). We've had several people hack root
on our systems via holes that had no advisories or exploit scripts were
released for.
Look elsewhere for someone to flame meaninglessly next time.
--
- Paul "Shag" Walmsley <ccshag@everest.cclabs.missouri.edu>
"The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad."
- Salvador Dali
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10952f,baa596e4a440876b X-Google-Attributes: gid10952f,public X-Google-Thread: 12c8b4,baa596e4a440876b X-Google-Attributes: gid12c8b4,public X-Google-Thread: 134180,baa596e4a440876b X-Google-Attributes: gid134180,public X-Google-Thread: 1122ea,baa596e4a440876b X-Google-Attributes: gid1122ea,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-30 21:48:33 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!golf!indy56!ccshag From: ccshag@indy56.phlab.missouri.edu (Paul Walmsley) Newsgroups: comp.security.unix,biz.sco.general,biz.sco.opendesktop,biz.sco.magazine Subject: Re: [8lgm]-Advisory-13.UNIX.SCO-login.15-Apr-1994 Followup-To: comp.security.unix,biz.sco.general,biz.sco.opendesktop,biz.sco.magazine Date: 1 Dec 1994 05:14:55 GMT Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3bjm4f$o7i@golf.ustores.missouri.edu> References: <8LGM.94Nov28004011@bagpuss.demon.co.uk> <3bbrjo$ot@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> <3bca3q$6dh@eldborg.rhi.hi.is> <3bdgml$ana@usenety1.news.prodigy.com> <3bg70j$78h@zikzak.apana.org.au> <3bge0d$p7p@golf.ustores.missouri.edu> <gburnoreD027BL.9nD@netcom.com NNTP-Posting-Host: indy56.gclab.missouri.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]