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Re: Rootshell pages hacked
From: Paul Vixie <paul () vix com>
Date: 01 Nov 1998 09:48:16 -0800
Moral.. Don't trust ssh. -Ryan Net Access Corporation
what idiocy. given write access to a binary, one can use the binary as a trojan horse. if it has privileges or is executed by someone who has privileges, then your trojan will have those privileges. ssh is not the problem. writable / mutable binaries are the problem, and letting someone break into your system far enough to write or mutate your binaries is the problem, and using versions of SSH (or any other privileged tool) whose signatures you have not verified out-of-band is the problem. ssh is a fine program as such things go. security is fundamentally more about the procedures for key use and key management than it is about the quality of one's locks. in other words it's the people not the technology.
Current thread:
- Re: Rootshell pages hacked Adam D. McKenna (Nov 01)
- Re: Rootshell pages hacked Paul Vixie (Nov 01)
- Re: Rootshell pages hacked Henry Linneweh (Nov 01)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Rootshell pages hacked Alex P. Rudnev (Nov 02)
- Re: Rootshell pages hacked Adam Rothschild (Nov 02)
- Re: Rootshell pages hacked John P. Reddy (Nov 02)
- Re: Rootshell pages hacked Mikael Abrahamsson (Nov 02)
- Re: Rootshell pages hacked Adam Rothschild (Nov 02)
- Re: Rootshell pages hacked Paul Vixie (Nov 01)
- Re: Rootshell pages hacked John Hawkinson (Nov 02)
- Re: Rootshell pages hacked Adam D. McKenna (Nov 02)
- Re: Rootshell pages hacked themonk (Nov 02)
- Re: Rootshell pages hacked Ryan Pavely (Nov 02)
- Re: Rootshell pages hacked alex (Nov 02)