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  • From: Geoffrey Derber <Geoffrey.Derber AT Trinity.edu>
  • To: eschabell AT sourcemage.org
  • Cc: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • Cc: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Cc: sm-sorcery <sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Cc: Tony Smith <tony AT smee.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery] Re: [SM-Discuss] SECURITY ISSUE
  • Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 10:49:12 -0600

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Eric Schabell wrote:
|
|>On Tuesday April 1 2003 18:11, Tony Smith wrote:
|>On Tuesday 01 April 2003 5:01 pm, Dufflebunk wrote:
|>
|>>A masive trojan has been discovered in bash v2.05b. It allows remote
|>>access to any machine via bash's /dev/tcp virtual devices if your eth0
|>>is connected to the internet. There is, of course, a blurb on
|>>securityfocus and bugtraq, but I'm too lazy to find it.
|>>
|>>Since GNU seems to be as slow as usual, the sorcery team is planning on
|>>accelerating out rewrite schedule and starting today. We have decided to
|>>rewrite in C# as it has the portability, low level, and network
|>>facilities that we require.
|>
|>Yup, spotted that too. But I thought we agreed on using Javascript and
|>running our whole distro on a web page?
|>
|
| Well, that is good as Kyle wanted to change our design anyhow and as
he has
| showed up here on my door-step crying about wanting his distro
back.... I had
| to step down....
|
| Best of luck with your new Project Lead: Kyle!
|
Haha, nice try at the April Fools

Geoff

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