Re: (newbie) Question about core linux security
From: Jacob Westenbach (westy528_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/11/04
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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:05:58 GMT
"Sam Joharay" <public_viewer@indiatimes.com> wrote in message
news:d7b6aa1a.0402110843.2696abd0@posting.google.com...
> NeoSadist <neosad1st@charter.net> wrote in message
news:<102jf8oka190na2@corp.supernews.com>...
>
> <I-cant-help-replying-so-I-said-the-following>
> > Is your google broken?
> > BTW: NOTHING is unhackable.
> </I-cant-help-replying-so-I-said-the-following>
>
>
> Probably you dont understand words/phrases like:
> "newbie" and "this must be common knowledge".
> (Refer to original post)
>
> If you thought the original message was redundant,
> simply DONT REPLY to it. Your reply was only as
> uninformative as the original post (if not more).
>
> What I meant to ask is whether *thats all* it takes
> for someone to add a backdoor to my PC while I'm gone
> for 5 minutes. I was sure that the process was common
> knowledge althoughI had heard of it for the first time,
> but I was only trying to avoid posts like "can you
> describe the exact way you are trying to do what you
> said" etc.
>
> If you know how it can be done in Windows, then let
> it be known, *that* would be informative.
>
> regards,
> [Sam Jo
Boot from a sysutils CD - change administrator password to "null" using
approporiate tool, add anything you want, logout of util without saving
password change. User sees no changes, adminstrator password still same,
backdoor working as designed.
JW
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