[1037] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: New York Times article
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David S. Channin)
Fri Oct 13 10:45:28 1995
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 95 07:22:13 EDT
From: dsc@xray.hmc.psu.edu (David S. Channin)
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>> "Gircys" == GG148 <Gintaras> writes:
>> Gircys> i'm not surprised - media people are stupid sh*ts.
>>
>> And software people are all geeky nerds who don't bathe and
watch Star
>> Trek all the time?
>>
>> Watch the generalizations.
>>
>> --jet
>>
>>
Hey, I bathed just before Star Trek: The Next Generation came out !!
Seriously, is anyone going to write the New York Times op-ed to explain
that
they might have over reacted slightly as per:
>> This really has not to much to do with netscape security. You
can "patch"
>> any program that is run via nfs(or at any time has travelled
over a
>> network) to do whatever you want using the same methods. The
attack the UC
>> Berkley folks are describing is combination between the "man in
the
>> middle" or "hijack" attack and a trojan horse both which have
been known
>> about and exploited for a while.
>>
>> The point is that the consequence of a hacker stealing credit
card numbers
>> over a lan with a rogue netscape pales in comparison to
somebody
>> substituting a rogue software compiler that makes secret
backdoors on any
>> machine the companies software is run on. Network security NOT
Netscape
>> security is the real issue here.
>>
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>>
>>
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dsc@xray.hmc.psu.edu
David S. Channin
Dept. of Radiology, Hershey Med. Ctr., Hershey, PA 17033
