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- Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!gatech!udel!gvls1!jabber!candle!root
- From: root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian)
- Subject: Re: Breaking into Unix via modem
- Organization: a consultant's basement
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 01:10:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.011004.14449@candle.uucp>
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- References: <1992Dec30.025955.8707@candle.uucp>
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- Bruce Momjian (root@candle.uucp) wrote:
- : <FOLLOW UP>
- :
- : I have heard nothing from the Net to substantiate this person's claims,
- : and have talked to him again, and he now admits that the person who told
- : him this was probably mistaken.
- :
- : I was basically in a political situation and had to give evidence that
- : he was wrong. The lack of response from the Net helped me do that.
-
- Just to clarify (I have gotten some e-mail questions), the guy I was
- talking was saying there was a way by dialing into the modem to access
- the system bus directly, and somehow with "machine code" get root access
- to the Unix system.
-
- This seemed ridiculous to me, but I had to be sure before saying he was
- wrong.
-
- The modem security issues already posted are good points.
- Thanks.
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