[91220] in Cypherpunks
Re: Kashpureff stuff online
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Tue Dec 2 00:35:37 1997
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 05:46:07 +0100 (MET)
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To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: nobody@replay.com (Anonymous)
Reply-To: nobody@replay.com (Anonymous)
Anyone know of any low S/N lists out there for "Crackerpunks"??
>
> > So what did Kashpureff do? Who is Kashpureff? Is he the guy at
> > Alternic who did some advanced DNS hacking to get Internic DNS root to
> > point to him? Or something else?
>
> Yup, that's him.
>
> IIRC, he exploited Bind's failure to check input in certain cases:
> He set his DNS server to be the delegating authority for .com,
> say; then sent a recursive query to his victim's DNS server to get
> the victim to query _his_ server; his server mixed the bogus info
> into its response to the query, thus poisoning the victim's DNS.
>
> Cypherpunks write code.
> Crackerpunks read code.
>
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>
> Ng Pheng Siong
> <ngpsstoi@pacific.net.sg>
>
