[769] in bugtraq
Re: Hijacking tool
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Quentin Fennessy)
Wed Jan 25 12:58:01 1995
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 08:46:03 -0600
From: Quentin Fennessy <Quentin.Fennessy@SEMATECH.Org>
To: newsham@aloha.net (Timothy Newsham)
Cc: Quentin.Fennessy@SEMATECH.Org (Quentin Fennessy), bugtraq@fc.net
Tim, you said:
> > The TCP sequence number is what RTM and SMB wrote about. This is
> > different - you don't need root anywhere to to that.
>
> You do need priveledged access to a machine to send out arbitrary
> packets. (Any mac or dos user is priveledged).
>
What does that mean? I said you don't need root - I don't need root on
a mac or on a PC. There is no concept of priviledge on macs or PCs.
QF
