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Re: Exhibition: Interim Summary
imho.... a hacker who is being asked about is hacking experiences in a
news paper, and tells, and about his IRC sessions, and refers to the IRC
cops as real police officers, is not really a hacker.. i can't agree more
with the thought that the real analayzer is unknown.. and a hacker who
doesn't know what a buffer overflow is.... Well, i won't comment on that
one........... :-)
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 nirs@vipe.technion.ac.il wrote:
> 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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