Re: Closed list

[Solar Designer <solar () openwall com>]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 04:37:53PM -0400, zardoz () hush com wrote:
> I previously had a backdoor on the vendor-sec box and would like to 
> be included in the new vendor-sec list.  If you could migrate my 
> backdoor to the new infrastructure, it would be much appreciated.
>
> My public key should still be in /root/.ssh/authorized_keys.

Oh, you forgot to post a fingerprint and a DNA sample for verification.

> - Zardoz

This reminder is very nice, and timely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zardoz_(computer_security)
http://securitydigest.org/zardoz/

Obviously, history repeats itself.  It's the same tradeoff, and we're
(maybe) just a little bit wiser now.

Alexander