more than idle threats I'm afraid

[full-disclosure () lists netsys com (Anodyne Perspective)]

--- security () australia edu wrote:
> Anodyne Perspective replied to my original post with
> > --- security () australia edu wrote:
> > [snip]
> > >     To make a long story short, I woke up
> yesterday
> > > to find this in my home
> > > directory :    
> > >
> > > ./MeMe156/agent.agency.08.14.02.2348/added
> > > .agent.sol
> > >
> > >
> > > after looking through ;
> > > /var/adm/messages
> > > /var/adm/syslog
> > >
> > > to no avail, I used what I thought to be a clever
> > > script that logs
> > > auth.notice messages. NOTHING
> > >
> > > /var/log/utmp; /var/log/utmpx
> > > /var/log/wtmp; /var/log/wtmpx
> > > /var/log/syslog
> > >
> > > nothing. But then /var/log/sulog  showed me this;
> > > SU 08/15 12:47 + pts/0 <userid>-root
> > >  and /var/adm/messages revealed this
> > > Aug 15 12:48:41 ***.***.***.*** unix:
> rebooting...
> > > almost convenient that it was there at all. If
> > > anyone else has any
> > > information remotely related please respond.
> > >
> > > I administer a private lab running 2 Sun LX50's
> > > involved in active Ionospheric
> > > research and HF analysis.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Sure, more than an idle threat to you, but only
> > because you waited too long to mitigate or prevent
> the
> > usability or an exploit on your systems, or you
> didn't
> > prevent remote/networked access prior to now. 
> What's
> > new about this?  What's especially scary?  Nothing.
> >
> > >
>
> # waited too long? Did you stop too see what really
> happened here
> # before you jumped in and shot off your mouth about
> somthing that #you have
> obviously have no clue about. If it were the old
> lit_tty
> #bug, I don't think it would need a reboot.
> # And as for scary? Maybe you should take a look at
> the nature of #advanced
> Ionospheric research before you comment on it. Sure,
> we #only pump about 1/3
> of the juice through our dipole array as the #big
> guys(HAARP). Anyways, all
> our systems are down until we can do #a thourough
> low level analysis. It IS
> scary Anodyne. More than you #know. I asked for
> help, not blind ignorant flaming.
>
> http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/index1.html

Do you deliberately obfuscate your posts?

If these machines are so important, why are they
online at all?

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