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Re: Exhibition: Interim Summary



OK, I have over 100 messages to read, so maybe what I write here
is already written on one of these messages, so I apologize in
advance:

1. I didn't write that Ehood Tenenbaum didn't know what was buffer
   overflow; I wrote that "he *claimed* that he didn't know" (the
   "*" were in my original message). Of course he knows, at least
   according to a private "research" I did yesterday.

2. My resource (let's not mention his name) claimed that they had
   another name for this kind of holes (not "buffer overrun", but
   totally different).

3. I believe that Tenenbaum even knows the words "buffer overflow"
   and only prefers not to refer to it and to deny knowing it. It
   is a correct way to behave, surely in relative to face-to-face
   interviews for "Walla Today" (before he was caught).

4. Regarding to the tools he used: My resource (sorry again, cannot
   specify names) admitted that most of the tools were taken from
   the Net, but some WERE DEVELOPED BY TENENBAUM. My *personal*
   impression (from my talk with him) was that he knows UNIX and
   TCP/IP, "even" more than many of us.

5. I know that this story is so exciting etc., etc., but I brought
   it only as a "BTW" story; Please cancel this thread.

>   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 ?

I asked him this question, and got a convincing answer, but after
these 3 days, so many talks with so many people, I really cannot
remember this answer, only that he knew about us, knew some of us,
and even tracked the list or its archive. Sorry for my F memory!

-- 
Eli Marmor