Re: [patch] PIII/Katmai & FXSAVE support, disable serial-#, 2.2.2

Nat Lanza (magus@cs.cmu.edu)
04 Mar 1999 14:37:27 -0500


Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> writes:

> Perhaps the cracker himself (itself? ;) isn't bright enough to delete shell
> history, but his shrink-wrapped cracking tools might be a lot brighter...

Some of them are. A surprising number aren't. A personal favorite of
mine was the log from a cracker who couldn't figure out how to untar
and install the trojan package he'd ftped onto the machine. he tried a
few times, and then eventually gave up and logged out.

--nat

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