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- From: cedman@lynx.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources
- Subject: GENERAL WARNING
- Message-ID: <CEDMAN.90Sep25084340@lynx.ps.uci.edu>
- Date: 25 Sep 90 15:43:42 GMT
-
- PROGRAMMER GENERALS WARNING: Precompiled binaries can be hazardous
- to your health and lead to virus infections.
-
- Now, really: It is very easy to change particularily a programm like
- a shell to f.e. put the name of a non-backtraceable account into the
- .rhosts file and then send mail to it to inform the hacker that
- he has just gotten a new account. Maybe even a su account ?
- , or to log all lines containing some keywords (like password or username)
- to a public file.
-
- You may want to take the risk, but be warned.
-
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