RE: Re: Re: Solaris telnet vulnberability - how many on your network?

[jf <jf () danglingpointers net>]

sure, of course when you contort reality to where college pranks are the
same as vast corporate conspiracies then im sure you will find plenty of
example, I however meant *real* ones, not what a college student did to
another for fun.


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        Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
        it is the courage to continue that counts.

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On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Cromar Scott wrote:

> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:34:30 -0500
> From: Cromar Scott <SCromar () caxton com>
> To: jf <jf () danglingpointers net>, thefinn12345 () gmail com
> Cc: bugtraq () securityfocus com
> Subject: RE: ***PossibleSPAM*** Re: Re: Solaris telnet vulnberability - how
>     many on your network?
>
> Ken Thompson pulled a famous prank back in the old days.  He refers to
> it in the following:
>
>  http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/
>
> I've heard a few different versions of this story, some of which would
> fit your requirements.
>
> --Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jf [mailto:jf () danglingpointers net]
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 12:28 AM
> To: thefinn12345 () gmail com
> Cc: bugtraq () securityfocus com
> Subject: ***PossibleSPAM*** Re: Re: Solaris telnet vulnberability - how
> many on your network?
>
> > There have also been too many times in the past when they have been
> proven correct to ignore the possibility any longer.
>
> Hi, in what instances has the conjecture that a bug was a deliberate
> backdoor been proven correct?
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