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Re: [8lgm]-Advisory-14.UNIX.SCO-prwarn.12-Nov-1994
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Mon Nov 28 16:40:45 1994
From: alan@mid.net (Alan Hannan)
To: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 11:55:26 -0600 (CST)
Cc: david@irc.umbc.edu, alan@mid.net, 8lgm@bagpuss.demon.co.uk, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <9411281725.AA00383@grymoire.crd.ge.com> from "Bruce Barnett" at Nov 28, 94 12:25:40 pm
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>
> > Again, I echo Dave's remarks. If you think that any cracker with half a
> > brain doesn't know how to exploit it, then you're quite silly.
>
>
> As someone who has recently been exposed to a hacker, I
> can say that hacker's *DO* have half a brain.
>
> Our logs show the hacker had sophisticated tools, but didn't know how
> to use them. This hacker doesn't even understand UNIX:
>
> Examples of hacker's commands:
>
> cat file | grep pattern
>
> more /dev/nit
>
> more /dev/pty
>
>
> Need I say more?
>
What you didn't say is more important. How many {h | cr}ackers have been
through your system patching that you _didn't_ see?
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