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Re: terminal weirdness?
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz () CSH RIT EDU>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 23:10:04 -0500
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 11:46:04AM -0500, Systems Administrator wrote:
Perhaps this is an old tool I am thinking of that no longer works, but I was wondering if anyone has used this technique in their pen tests?I've managed to get random characters appeear as user input by catting binary files trough /dev/tty's to user terminals, can't say that much more about it though.
Are you sure they're really random? It's not uncommon for random data to contain, e.g., ASCII 14 (SO) which often changes the character set of the terminal and makes things like the user's terminal type (being echoed back in response to an ENQ) look like random garbage. -- - mdz
Current thread:
- Re: terminal weirdness?, (continued)
- Re: terminal weirdness? Ron DuFresne (Mar 10)
- Re: terminal weirdness? Allen J. Newton (Mar 11)
- Re: terminal weirdness? Matt Zimmerman (Mar 10)
- Re: terminal weirdness? Ron DuFresne (Mar 08)
- Re: terminal weirdness? Matt Zimmerman (Mar 08)
- Re: terminal weirdness? Vincent Zweije (Mar 08)
- Re: terminal weirdness? Curt Wilson (Mar 09)
- Re: terminal weirdness? Damian Menscher (Mar 09)
- Re: terminal weirdness? Matt Zimmerman (Mar 10)
- Re: terminal weirdness? Systems Administrator (Mar 10)
- Re: terminal weirdness? Matt Zimmerman (Mar 10)
- Re: terminal weirdness? Curt Wilson (Mar 09)