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- From: demon@ibmpcug.co.uk (Cliff Stanford)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources,connect.audit
- Subject: Re: GENERAL WARNING
- Message-ID: <1990Sep26.234214.338@ibmpcug.co.uk>
- Date: 26 Sep 90 23:42:14 GMT
-
- cedman@lynx.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) writes:
- > 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 ?
-
- You mean that if that were included in the source to a
- large program (ELM, for instance) you'd notice it was there
- before compiling it? I doubt I would.
- Regards,
- Cliff.
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