Found, a new rootkit

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sat Apr 8 17:44:40 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 03:07 -0700, jdow wrote:
> If you get close enough to my machines to feed high rate data into the
> unused serial ports on my machines that is the least of my worries,
> Kemo Sabe. You have physical access to my machines. At that point the
> only thing that can protect them from a crude level of physical attack
> is divine intervention.

That's true enough, though I seem to recall Mike bringing up the subject
of a modem left on auto-answer.  I've seen that happen.  You never set
it up for auto-answer, so you forget to check.  Unfortunately, it was
already set up that way...

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