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Paul Walmsley aka ccshag@indy56.phlab.missouri.edu wrote:

{ 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. 

The secret is what the hole is. 



{ Look elsewhere for someone to flame meaninglessly next time.

This was  not intended as a flame and it definately was not meaningless.
Think before you accuse next time.


Regards,  gary

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{ - 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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