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Moving this to .debate, for lack of lugnet.off-topic.comp.risks.
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 21:30:12 GMT, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller)
wrote:
> Jasper Janssen <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote:
> Why not? BO2K runs on Windows NT and Win2000 boxes. (The new version of
> Netbus does too, but I'm not sure if that's publicly available yet.)
BO isn't cracking - it's carelessness on the part of the crackee.
Anyone can distribute happy99.exe, but breaking root on an up-to-CERT
unix box is something very few can do.
> But if you anticipate what packets the remote side will return, you can
> generate the appropriate responses. Admittedly, very difficult to do when
> you're doing something complicated, but within the realm of possibility.
Hmm. Good point. And for SMTP that's within the realm of possibility.
For NNTP.. Maybe. I don't know enough about the protocol.
>
> And, routing information may be in the packets, but it doesn't get logged,
> so that's no help.
Whether it gets logged or not really depends on what you log. I know
there are packages out there that do either log, or compare the two
and go mad if they don't match.
Jasper
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