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Re: Exhibition: Interim Summary



On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:

> EM> famous teenager was the "Analyzer", who came with his father, and
> EM> the only thing that I could learn from (after more than 20 minutes
> EM> talk) was that he didn't use any buffer overflow (he *claimed* that
> EM> he didn't know what was "buffer overflow"). BTW: He prefers
> 
> Rootshell has a lot of ready-to-use stuff. You haven't to know what it
> does, just run and wait for "# _" :)
> 
> A pity I wasn't there... It's interesting to see "most advanced hacker of
> all times", who doesn't know what is a buffer overflow... :)

  Well guys, due to the fact that Stanislav had raised the 1,000,000 $
question, here are some rumers I've picked up while sitting on some
hackers IRC channels and News groups:

a. The so called Analyzer didn't work alone. He had partenrs both from the 
   states and from Germany.
b. According to people in the 2600 circle, the REAL Analyzer is still
   unknown, and they claim that he actually works as a computer security 
   consultant or something like that.
c. If the Analyzer doesn't know what a "buffer overflow" is, I guess he
   won't know the simplest way to get root access on a Data General Unix
   system (would someone care to finger :) ).

  These are my thoughts in the matter, I'd really like to hear from you
people what you think about the matter. If this guy is so knowladgeable in
Unix and Linux, howcome he never joined the Linux-Il mailing list ?

Best regards,
  Nir Simionovich

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