Re: freebsd rootkit

From: Eric Anderson (anderson@centtech.com)
Date: 05/30/01 

Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:13:43 -0500
From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To: rich@rdrose.org

I think it was supposed to be a joke.

rich@rdrose.org wrote:
>
> On Wed, 30 May 2001, Andrew Barros wrote:
> > Someone should add it in ports.
>
> Now, to me, that seems like a *reallly* bad idea. Imagine the situation:
> Some not so nice person keeps an eye on the ports tree for software with
> vulnerabilites that are not yet fixed, or indeed uses FreeBSD and keeps an
> up to date ports tree. They will see the words "rootkit".
>
> Can you imagine that? The look on their face. They'll re-read it. They'll
> stop and think for a moment. They'll re-read it again. Then, this thought
> will fly through their mind: "If I ever break into a FreeBSD machine, I've
> got a free rootkit. I don't even need to bother covering my tracks
> cleverly anymore".
>
> I would suggest *not* putting the rootkit in the ports tree, if only to
> save those who have only just installed FreeBSD and are just learning the
> Unix world.
>
> rik
>
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