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Re: is it safe?



Ira Abramov wrote:
> 
> humm!
> 
> [ira@ard ~]$ finger stallman@gnu.ai.mit.edu
> [gnu.ai.mit.edu]
>   User     Real Name         What    Idle  TTY  Host      Console Location
> rms      Richard Stallman           1 week *1* ethanol
> 
> how easy is it to intercept a telnet connection and spoof commands? I
> heard it's very easy to do with Xterms... (just a general question, I'm
> not planning anything!)

there was quite a large (and popular) hole with X, but i think it's
supposed to
fixed by now. i might be able to dig some more info if you'd like. it
was 
considered risky to maintain such long idle sessions but all this is,
again,
supposed to be Unix (in)security history.

Eran.

--
"Something's odd
I feel like I'm God
You stupid dumbshit goddamn motherfucker"
	OFFSPRING, "Bad Habit"


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